Need help with PostPage

[Dash]

Hi everybody,

first: I am pretty new to scripting, but learned a lot by looking at other scripts so far.

What I am currently trying to do, ist getting the search result page from here: http://www.invdeo.de/

After finding this line

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<form method=post action="http://www.invdeo.de/home.jsp?affid=1&smcmd=dvdlist_search">

on the page, I figure that I need to use the PostPage funtion.

I used this

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page := PostPage(searchpage, moviename);

with

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moviename := GetField(fieldOriginaltitle);
searchpage = 'http://www.invdeo.de/home.jsp?affid=1&smcmd=dvdlist_search';

in my Script, but somehow it ain't working. I don't know if I am missing a referer or something or doing something wrong, but if someone would be so kind and take a look at it, I would be really thankful.

Greets, Dash

[antp]

The param values must bu URL-Encoded and you have to provide also the param name.
So the params must at least content
params := URLEncode('str=' + moviename)
And maybe also these hidden fields:
<input type=hidden name=orderby value=name>
<input type=hidden name=order value=1>
<input type=hidden name=category value=filme>
<input type=hidden name=typ value=sres>
so:
params := URLEncode('str=' + moviename + '&orderby=name&order=1&category=filme&typ=sres')

[Dash]

[edit]
Just took a closer look at downloaded page. It works correctly. It seems, it's just a bug with the ShowMessage function.

Thanks again.
[/edit]






Thanks for the quick answer. It almost did the trick.

If I use

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C:\wget>wget "http://www.invdeo.de/home.jsp?affid=1&smcmd=dvdlist_search" --post-data=str="minority&orderby=name&order=1&category=filme&typ=sres"

it works all fine, but

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  moviename := GetField(fieldOriginaltitle);
  ShowMessage(moviename);
  params := URLEncode('str=' + moviename + '&orderby=name&order=1&category=filme&typ=sres');
  ShowMessage(params);

gives me

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str=movienameorderby=nameorder=1category=filmetyp=sres

It is missing all the "&". Then it should work fine.

[antp]

Just took a closer look at downloaded page. It works correctly. It seems, it's just a bug with the ShowMessage function.

Actually in Windows the & is used to indicate a keyboard shortcut, and so the letter that follows it is underlined. E.g. menu "File" is labelled "&File" actually.