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Automated Form Submission



Author
14 Nov 2007 11:32 AM
rn5arn5a
Nowadays, most websites make use of CAPTCHA to prevent automated Form
submission. Can someone please give me examples of how automated Form
submission can be achieved?

It's not that I intend to do some nefarious activities; rather I don't
understand how can automated Form submission be done other than the
website developer coding it (for e.g. using JavaScript to
automatically post a Form, say, after 2 minutes).

Thanks,

Ron

Author
14 Nov 2007 1:42 PM
Tim Slattery
rn5ar***@gmail.com wrote:

>Nowadays, most websites make use of CAPTCHA to prevent automated Form
>submission. Can someone please give me examples of how automated Form
>submission can be achieved?

Programs written in C, C++, Java or anything else can send http or
https transmissions. After all, that's exactly what a web browser
does, right? So you write one that, instead of taking orders from a
user and sending the requests that he directs, sends out what it
wants. Being a computer program, it can do this thousands of times a
minute.

If you're a programmer, this kind of thing would not be much of a
challenge.

--
Tim Slattery
MS MVP(Shell/User)
Slatter***@bls.gov
http://members.cox.net/slatteryt
Author
14 Nov 2007 6:23 PM
Jon Paal [MSMD]
post client side coding questions here:

comp.lang.javascript

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