Howdy!

This is probably not a PERL question, but my problem right now is I don't know what I don't know...

I'm trying to automate submission of a web page that updates data based on which check marks you tick, and each entry will be a little different based on the number of items that come up each time.

I used HTTP::Recorder to capture one of these pages after clicking the save button which was:


GET /tree/16449623/hints?pid=20442759375&hf=Mtree&pn=1&hs=recent&msg=n
+tm&msgParams=7%7c15%7c22%7cUGhlYmUgQUxMWU5FfFJvYmVydCBISUNLUw2&mpid=2
+0442759375&nec=2 HTTP/1.1

[download]

I have scoured the page source looking for how that msgParams field was built and can't correlate what I see with the output captured. Even doing a search in the source for 'msgParams' came up empty.

So my first question is, have I provided enough data here to go on? Would providing the HTML source from one of the checkboxes help?

Next, how can I begin to decipher that block?

Thank you!

In reply to Deciphering POST response recorded by HTTP::Recorder by jclh

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