Hello!
There is a website which has a page that I'm trying to get to programatically. There is a process that needs to be followed to get to the desired page. Now I've already found short cuts to get to the second-to-last page in the process, the problem is that this last page has a form. I'm trying to simulate the action of clicking the "Submit" button.

Now the kicker, if I take all the form variables and put them into the URL http://foo.com/bar?baz=true, etc. I get dumped back to the first page in the process. So what I need is a way to do simulate a person using a web-browser clicking on submit.
If I'm being too vague I'm sure somebody will tell me.

Any useful help is appreciated!

In reply to Help with forms by Anonymous Monk

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