Methods to Submit a Form With POST Using {Curl | Perl | Python | Ruby | Lynx}

Assume that you have a form , in the source look for something similar to :

input name="rid" type="TEXT" input name="submit" value="SUBMIT" type="SUBMIT" align="center"

Then , based on your needs select any of the methods to POST the data to the form and get the required results back

Using curl : curl -s -d "rid=value%&submit=SUBMIT" > out.html

Using Lynx to dump data : curl -sd 'rid=1ap05cs013&submit=SUBMIT' | lynx -dump -nolist -stdin > out.html

Using Perl :

“

!/usr/bin/perl -w

use strict; use LWP::UserAgent; use warnings;

sub send_to {

my $browser  = LWP::UserAgent->new;
my $response = $browser->post(
    'URL',
    [
        'rid'    => $rid,  
        'submit' => 'SUBMIT'
    ],
);

print ( $response->content );

}

Using Python :

“

!/usr/bin/env python

import urllib

URL to post to

url = ‘URL’ values = {‘rid’: rid,

        'submit': 'SUBMIT'}

html = urllib.urlopen(url, urllib.urlencode(values)).read() print html

Using Ruby : require "uri" require "net/http" uri = URI.parse('URL') req = Net::HTTP::Post.new('URL')

req.set_form_data({ ‘rid’ => ‘value’,
‘submit’ => ‘SUBMIT’ }) res = Net::HTTP.new(uri.host, uri.port).start { |http| http.request(req) } File.open(‘out.htm’, ‘w’) { |f| f.write res.body }