CGI script to replace a form?

[Byron C. Mayes]

Greetings from NYC,

We recently obtained an account with NISC for the web version of Child 
Abuse and Neglect (CA&N). Going to the URL 
<http://biblioline.nisc.com/scripts/login.dll?login> takes one to a login 
screen (as if you couldn't guess) where one must enter a username and 
password to gain access.

NISC sent me a way to bypass the login procedure in the form of the form 
HTML code below:

  <form action="http://biblioline.nisc.com/scripts/login.dll?login" 
method="post">
  <input type="submit" value="go there">
  <input type="hidden" name="name" value="USERID">
  <input type="hidden" name="pwd" value="PASSWORD">
  </form>

This, obviously, produces a submit button, which is fine for a web page, 
but not for things like bookmarks and delimited lists which is our 
preferred method of access to our web-accessible resources.

OCLC FirstSearch pointed us to a script that automatically logs one in to 
that system, so our URL for FS points to that script (on our server) and 
fits nicely into bookmark files, delimited list HTML code, and e-mail 
messages. I'd like to do the same for CA&N.

My question is this: is it possible to create a CGI script that will pass 
the above information to the URL in the same way as the form? if anyone has 
done something like this and is willing to share the script, I'd be greatly 
appreciative.

Thanks,
Byron C. Mayes



Prof. Byron C. Mayes Systems Librarian/Asst. Professor
Hunter College, City Univ. of New York
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