Hi Monks,

I want to automate the interaction to a website by using Perl. The site only runs under IE/Windows, and it contains the following Javascript segment.

What I really want to do is present it with my own calculated (in Perl) xobj.reqFrm.frmSendMsg.detail.value and then trigger the SubmitMsg() routine programatically. 

function SubmitMsg() {
  xobj.reqFrm.frmSendMsg.ac.value= xobj.GetDataStore("ac");
  xobj.reqFrm.frmSendMsg.detail.value = xobj.CreateMsg();
  xobj.reqFrm.frmSendMsg.signature.value = xobj.SignMsg(
    xobj.reqFrm.frmSendMsg.ac.value,
    xobj.reqFrm.frmSendMsg.detail.value);
  xobj.SubmitForm(xobj.reqFrm.frmSendMsg);
}

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How to do this sort of thing in Perl?

The signing process and other things in there that I removed for clarity. I would essentially like to leave most of it running under IE as there is just so much other .js code, llike the message signing and other routines.

In reply to How to make Perl modify and trigger Javascript variable/function by zerocred

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