Automating CGI logons - clarification & further question

[Kerry]

    Apparently I confused the issue in my earlier post by mentioning Telnet. 
What I want to do is set up way to connect to a URL on such as:

   HTTP://www.wherever/validate

(where "validate" sends a form asking for a name and password) so that the
name and password gets filled in automatically by a script on our system,
instead of the user having to fill it in. (We will have already validated 
the user on our server to make sure that they belong to our institution and
have the right to use our institutional name and password for the remote
system.)

    Bin Zhang writes:

>You can use expect to write expect script to automatically log onto the
>database server...

    This sounds like what I need, but I can't find any documentation about
"expect" -- is this an HTML tag, part of the CGI specification, or what?

                       Thanks,
                            Kerry Bouchard
                            Automated Systems Mgr, Mary Couts Burnett Library
                            Texas Christian University
                            K.BOUCHARD at TCU.EDU

--Boundary (ID H6Q144mVPCUX/Yhn6Chy3w)--