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Rhapsody.Rhythm@gmail.com · Guest

Hi All

Greetings!

I have client who wants to automate a task of looking up a site to
download the parametized data (that is the data filtered accoding to
user inputs) from the website. The client wants a command line unility
that wraps this program and accepts the user input parameters. Since
the site assigns a unique session ID, the client wants this to be
programmed as a servelet.

Is this a best approach to build the utility? Though I think this
utility should be built in Java, I don't think servelet is the best
choice since there has to be servelet engine (container) to host the
servelet. Besides there is no need for us to maintian the session
information (though the site maintain it) as the data is downloaded in
shot (or error is reported if there were no data). What do you all
think??

How can make a java program to visit a URL and supply the
parameters and trigger the equilavent event to clicking the button on
this site and save the data into file or report the error if there were
no data?

Has any one done this before? Please let me know about the best
approach to solving this.

Appreciate all your help and I would like thank every one in advance.

Regards,

-RR