[thelist] PHP HTTP Fetch and IE VBScript

[Peter Van Dijck]

Well, this just goes to show how ridicilous enforcing strict OO is.
You're shooting yourself in the foot there.

Peter

On 8/31/06, Hershel Robinson <hershel at galleryrobinson.com> wrote:
> A programmer on my team reported first thusly:
>
> ====
> Some part of the day was also spent in researching creating an OO
> wrapper for cURL which we have deemed as not worth the effort and
> instead we will use one of the Open Source HTTP client classes.
> ====
>
> This system is being coded in CakePHP and must be strictly OO (PHP5).
>
> So then he said:
>
> ====
> - Worked on getting CSV file from bacons.com using httpClient library.
> - The step 4 of login page contains javascript and vbscript code which
> runs only if page accesses from web browser (vbscript runs only in
> Internet Explorer). So we cannot continue further.
> ====
>
> This is all the information I have thus far on this. Before I am forced
> to delve into the details of this problem myself, does anyone have a
> solution or advice for this situation? bacons.com is indeed the third
> party site. We are trying to automate the data fetching process from
> that site.
>
> Thanks,
> Hershel
>
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