On Wed, 26 Nov 2003, stefan s. wrote: > Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2003 16:07:31 +0100 > From: stefan s. <xschmidix / gmx.net> > Newsgroups: comp.lang.ruby > Subject: another stupid question: filling out webforms > > hi > > i like to fill out a html webform with ruby with randomly generated > values. an example: > > - the form is @ www.mypage.com/webform.html > - there one field in this form: "zip" (<input type="text" name="zip">) > - i should be filled out with a random text-value smaller than 8 characters > by the ruby script > > please help me! > > p.s. excuse my bad english :) problem one: ~/eg/ruby/http > lynx -source http://www.mypage.com/webform.html <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd"> <HTML><HEAD><TITLE>The page cannot be found</TITLE> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" Content="text/html; charset=Windows-1252"> <STYLE type="text/css"> BODY { font: 8pt/12pt verdana } H1 { font: 13pt/15pt verdana } H2 { font: 8pt/12pt verdana } A:link { color: red } A:visited { color: maroon } </STYLE> </HEAD><BODY><TABLE width=500 border=0 cellspacing=10><TR><TD> <h1>The page cannot be found</h1> The page you are looking for might have been removed, had its name changed, or is temporarily unavailable. <hr> <p>Please try the following:</p> <ul> <li>Make sure that the Web site address displayed in the address bar of your browser is spelled and formatted correctly.</li> <li>If you reached this page by clicking a link, contact the Web site administrator to alert them that the link is incorrectly formatted. </li> <li>Click the Back button to try another link.</li> </ul> <h2>HTTP Error 404 - File or directory not found.<br>Internet Information Services (IIS)</h2> <hr> <p>Technical Information (for support personnel)</p> <ul> <li>Go to <a href="http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=8180">Microsoft Product Support Services</a> and perform a title search for the words <b>HTTP</b> and <b>404</b>.</li> <li>Open <b>IIS Help</b>, which is accessible in IIS Manager (inetmgr), and search for topics titled <b>Web Site Setup</b>, <b>Common Administrative Tasks</b>, and <b>About Custom Error Messages</b>.</li> </ul> </TD></TR></TABLE></BODY></HTML> -a -- ATTN: please update your address books with address below! =============================================================================== | EMAIL :: Ara [dot] T [dot] Howard [at] noaa [dot] gov | PHONE :: 303.497.6469 | ADDRESS :: E/GC2 325 Broadway, Boulder, CO 80305-3328 | STP :: http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/stp/ | NGDC :: http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/ | NESDIS :: http://www.nesdis.noaa.gov/ | NOAA :: http://www.noaa.gov/ | US DOC :: http://www.commerce.gov/ | | The difference between art and science is that science is what we | understand well enough to explain to a computer. | Art is everything else. | -- Donald Knuth, "Discover" | | /bin/sh -c 'for l in ruby perl;do $l -e "print \"\x3a\x2d\x29\x0a\"";done' ===============================================================================