| WEBFORM |
Contents
| Purpose: | POST data to interactive web pages or scripts |
| Format: | WEBFORM [/= /An /En /Fn /IPv6 /U"username" /O:headers" /P"password" /R"referer" /Tn /V] /W"url" "varname" "varvalue" ... |
| varname | Form variable |
| varvalue | Form value |
Usage:
WEBFORM will POST data to interactive web pages or scripts (CGI, ASP, etc.), similar to what HTML forms do.
WEBFORM will use the proxy & firewall settings from TCMD.INI. WEBFORM will support either HTTP or HTTPS (SSL) connections.
Example:
| webform /v /w"https://download.finance.yahoo.com/d/quotes.csv" "f", "sl1d1t1c1ohgv" "e", ".csv" "s", "IBM" |
Options:
| /= | Display the WEBFORM command dialog to help you set the command line options. The /= option can be anywhere on the line; additional options will set the appropriate fields in the command dialog. |
0 - basic
1 - digest
2 - proprietary
3 - none
4 - NTLM
5 - Negotiate
0 (URLEncoding) This is the most common encoding for HTML form contents.
1 (MultipartFormData) This is MIME encoding allowing transmission of binary data.
2 (QueryString) This is an older form of encoding where the actual parameters are appended to the URL query string. (Generally not recommended because most servers limit the size of the URL to less than 1K or 2K).
| Local file for downloading. If the file exists, it will be overwritten. |
| Other headers. The headers must be of the format "header: value" as described in the HTTP specifications. Header lines should be separated by CR/LF (^r^n). |
| Password if authentication is to be used. |
/R"referer" The document referring the requested URL
0 - no firewall (default)
1 - Connect through a tunneling proxy. Port is set to 80.
2 - Connect through a SOCKS4 proxy. Port is set to 1080.
3 - Connect through a SOCKS5 proxy. Port is set to 1080.
| User name if authentication is to be used |