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    Posted: 19 July 2004 at 11:21am

I've got a job where I have to write a script to automatically submit a users CV data into about 30 different websites automatically.  Some websites need email confirmation, some allow you straight in, etc etc, a wide variety of form types.

Once I get it to know which forms and fields to submit, without the user pressing a button to submit all the data individually to each one (like Bruces search engine submission tool) is there anyway to get the server to do this all at once with one click of the button?

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You could use the XML HTTP object to post the data to the other servers (loop through each server) presuming that to submit it to the websites you just need to post the data.
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Just as an aside - ServerXMLHTTP is faster than XMLHTTP.

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Thanks guys, but when you for example create an account on a website, how does the server log in and then submit another form on the site where you are required to be logged in?
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Don't know, never did that. Might try using XMLHTTP instead of serverXMLHTTP. They use different tcp/ip stacks and I think XMLHTTP more closely resembles a browser's stack. Don't know if it maintains a connection though.

After you do the post to login, you'll have to look at the headers that are returned and at a minimum use the session id and any cookies in the next set of headers you send.


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Do the websites not have a submission service? Or do you have to login on their main site and do it
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Erk, pretty complicated designing this with a database.  Thanks, this is pretty difficult.
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A lot of sites that host resumes specifically try to block automated submission software - keeps people from visiting the site and viewing the advertisements.

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