Re: What is sent to Yahoo Mail when I click on "next" or "previous"?
- From: David Dorward <dorward@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 27 Aug 2005 09:05:35 +0100
John Smith wrote:
> I have more than 4,000 pieces of email in my Yahoo account. I
> would like to write a program to download them all.
It would be easier and faster to just pay to POP3 access.
http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/mail/pop/pop-40.html
> In order to write such a program, I need to know a few things.
>
> 1. After I fill out userid, password, and click on "login", what
> exactly is sent to Yahoo?
I would suggest reading a forms tutorial, but Yahoo! have some JavaScript
playing games when the form is submitted. I suggest installing some form of
HTTP proxy that lets you view requests. It should be easy enough to write
one with, for example, the HTTP::Proxy module from CPAN.
> 2. When I click on "next" to fetch the next mail, what exactly is
> sent to Yahoo?
No fiddly stuff here, aside from the cookie Yahoo! uses for authentication.
Its a regular link.
> Are these info in the html source code?
Yes.
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