Re: Automated Form submission


In article <1148999712.444482.48360@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
brettev@xxxxxxxxx writes:
I work at a university where the professors have a system to input
grades for assignments and calculate final grades, which is output to
an excel file. they are then required to get on a different system

What kind of "system"?

and click radio buttons in a form to input final grades.

What kind of form? An HTML form in a web page? Do you maintain
this form? Is the form protected by any security features?

i would like to automate this by doing some sort of automated
form submission that grabs the information from the excel ***
and selects the correct radio button and then submits the form.

Do you want this automated form filler to run a web server or be
a downloadable script or executable of some sort or what?

does anyone have any idea on how to get me started on this?
is javascript even a possible solution?

There are numerous possibilities depending on the answers above.

For example, you might write a script (in whatever language you
prefer) that runs on the client and uses the COM interface to
Internet Explorer to fill out a form on a web page. You might
write a server-side application that uploads the excel *** and
sends direct HTTP POSTs to a web page. Perhaps you might use
Javascript with XMLHTTPRequest, but since I've never tried that,
I don't know for sure.

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