how to write a script that logs into an application and checks a page

Question

Is it possible to write a script that will login to an application using uname/pwd?

the username/password are not passed in through POST (they dont come in the URL)

Basic steps I am looking for are:

• Visit url
• enter uname/pwd
• click a button
• click a link
• get the raw html to make sure it does not have 500 error

Is that possible to do in any language?

Please point me to some examples as well

Answer 1

Java: HTTPUnit

Python: urllib

PHP: cURL

Answer 2

Java? examples? – josh 3 mins ago

There are no examples of using HTTPUnit in Java. You are like totally out of luck, dude.

Answer 3

Hi,

I have done something like this but with a third party app called iMacro

Hope it helps.

TE:-D