HTTPS authentication to java form

finfan has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I'm pretty strong with perl but know only a little about html and nearly nothing about java. I need to code a login to a java based web form. The html source of the page looks like this

    <frame src="/html/ofa/login/loginHeader.html" scrolling="no" nores
+ize="noresize" id="header" />
  
    <frame src="main.jsp" scrolling="auto" noresize="noresize" id="mai
+nFrame" />
  
    <frame src="/jsp/ofa/login/loginFooter.jsp" scrolling="no" noresiz
+e="noresize" id="footer" />
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Optimally I would like touse WWW::Mechanize, but I am open to any suggestion you fine folks might have.

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Re: HTTPS authentication to java form by Corion (Patriarch) on Nov 22, 2013 at 07:42 UTC
There is no form in the HTML you showed. Maybe you want to learn about HTTP and HTML first? You will need to find the appropriate frame, then `->get()` that frame URL, then navigate onward. See the documentation on `->find_links` in WWW::Mechanize for how to get at the frame URL. WWW::Mechanize::Firefox handles (through Firefox) frames somewhat more transparently, but you need Firefox and a display for it.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^2: HTTPS authentication to java form by finfan (Acolyte) on Nov 22, 2013 at 15:46 UTC
I know that there is no form in that jtml. I am assuming the form is rendered by the main.jsp script. So I am not sure what frame I should be "get"ing.	[reply]
Re^3: HTTPS authentication to java form by Corion (Patriarch) on Nov 22, 2013 at 15:49 UTC
The documentation says that `->find_link` accepts an `id` parameter. Maybe you want to pass it the id of the main frame? If you do that, you get a link back, which you can then `->get` in turn.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^4: HTTPS authentication to java form by finfan (Acolyte) on Nov 22, 2013 at 20:34 UTC