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Posted to dev@hc.apache.org by Ortwin Glück <od...@odi.ch> on 2006/08/10 10:14:22 UTC
Re: Getting FormElements from HTTP Response
Errol,
No, there is no such functionality in the API. HttpClient is a transport
library and does not look at the content. Whether its binary or HTML,
HttpClient doesn't care.
I also believe that "HTML screen scraping" is not the way to code
interfaces between machines. Webservices were invented for this purpose.
Cheers
Ortwin
Errol Dalgic wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> I've written several bots to extract the form elements and values from HTML
> pages utilising HttpClient and the java regex pattern/matcher api. I was
> wondering whether there were any generic methods within the HTTPClient API
> which would allow me to perform this task ie. retrieve all the name and
> value pairs from the response? I am sure this would be useful and happy to
> share what I have written so far.
>
> Thanks,
> Errol
>
>
> Errol Dalgic
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Re: Getting FormElements from HTTP Response
Posted by sebb <se...@gmail.com>.
But if you do really want/need to analyse html, then have a look at
the htmlparser project on sourceforge. There are other html parsers
e.g. Tidy.
S.
On 10/08/06, Ortwin Glück <od...@odi.ch> wrote:
> Errol,
>
> No, there is no such functionality in the API. HttpClient is a transport
> library and does not look at the content. Whether its binary or HTML,
> HttpClient doesn't care.
>
> I also believe that "HTML screen scraping" is not the way to code
> interfaces between machines. Webservices were invented for this purpose.
>
> Cheers
>
> Ortwin
>
> Errol Dalgic wrote:
> > Hi there,
> >
> > I've written several bots to extract the form elements and values from HTML
> > pages utilising HttpClient and the java regex pattern/matcher api. I was
> > wondering whether there were any generic methods within the HTTPClient API
> > which would allow me to perform this task ie. retrieve all the name and
> > value pairs from the response? I am sure this would be useful and happy to
> > share what I have written so far.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Errol
> >
> >
> > Errol Dalgic
> > Programmer Analyst
> > ________________________________________
> > eSolutions - Consumer Operations Group
> > SingTel Optus Pty Ltd
> > errol.dalgic@optus.com.au
> >
> >
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