Several ideas:
1. look at http://search.cpan.org/~abeltje/Win32-IE-Mechanize-0.009/ . It uses Win32::OLE.
2. Win32::OLE (A year ago I've created program to modify Excel document via OLE).
3. You can use persistent login if avalable. Then scan for this cookie in IE/Mozilla files.
4. Write your program as proxy that will intercept cookie.
All this is written in assumption that authentification uses cookies. If authentification uses URL, it is much simplier. If Basic authentification - nothing can be done. Digest - variants 1/2/4. | [reply] |
QuickTestPro from Mercury will automate browser actions, but it costs several thousand dollars per seat and uses VB for scripting, which you proabably want to avoid. Mac OSX's automator may do what you want.
What exactly is it regarding perl's automation that you aren't comfortable with? I haven't used Mechanize, but I'm sure a well designed script would be reasonably robust.
Also, a quick google search for "ie automation" gives several automation software vendors, plus this: Samie, a perl module for IE automation.
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What exactly is it regarding perl's automation that you aren't comfortable with? I haven't used
Mechanize, but I'm sure a well designed script would be reasonably robust.
I don't know about the original poster's issues, but javascript-heavy sites don't work well with WWW::Mechanize. Particularly annoying are webapps that use javascript to generate the HTML you see in the browser, because Mech won't let you submit form fields that it doesn't think exist.
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What exactly is it regarding perl's automation that you aren't comfortable with?
I normally face problem with Login screen. Apart from this I may have to build long code to compensate small manual descisions. Hence I am trying to get some auto-manual technique, which can be simple and fast.
Thanks to all for the suggestions
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