Web stress tester

[Steve Holden]

"Dale Strickland-Clark" <dale at riverhall.NOTHANKS.co.uk> wrote in message
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> I need to write a little web stress tester.
>
> What's the best way of pulling out values from forms and submitting
> new ones?
>
> I don't need the flexibility of HTMLParser. I just need the form field
> names and values.
>

You could do worse than look at

    http://wwwsearch.sourceforge.net/ClientForm/

It's flexible enough to let you programmatically fill in the forms your
server sends to you.

> Also, what's the difference between htmllib and HTMLParser?
>
The htmllib 2.2 docs say """See Also:
Module HTMLParser:
Alternate HTML parser that offers a slightly lower-level view of the input,
but is designed to work with XHTML, and does not implement some of the SGML
syntax not used in ``HTML as deployed'' and which isn't legal for XHTML.
"""

regards
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