How to press a button in Inter Explorer

Hi,

I am trying to retrieve some information from a website.The code below
starts Internet Explorer and navigates to the url.

$MyAccount = "x"
$MyPassword = "y"
$Url = "http://www.z.com/login/"
$Sb = new-object -com internetexplorer.application
$Sb.visible = $true
$Sb.navigate($Url)

[int]$Count = 1
while( ($sb.Busy -eq "True") ) {
$sb.Busy
start-sleep -m 100
$Count = $Count + 1
if ( $Count -ge 100 ) {
return "Error: Timeout loading logon page."
}
}

Next I supply username and password:
$Sb.document.getElementById("email").value = $MyAccount
$Sb.document.getElementById("password").value = $MyPassword

The problem is: I don't know how to press the submit button. Below is the
page source.

<div class="part"><h2>Login_</h2>
<form action="/login/" class="nice" method="post" name="login"><input
type="hidden" name="login" value="1" />
<div class="line"><label class="mylabel" for="email">E-mail:</label><div
class="inputs"><div><input name="email" type="text" value=""
/></div></div><br style="clear: both;" /></div>
<div class="line"><label class="mylabel"
for="password">Password:</label><div class="inputs"><div><input
name="password" type="password" value="" /></div></div><br style="clear:
both;" /></div>
<div class="line"><label class="mylabel"></label><div
class="inputs"><div><input alt="Submit" height="28"
src="/static/btn_submit_black.png" type="image" width="89" /></div></div><br
style="clear: both;" /></div>
</form><a class="support"
href="/login/forgotpassword.html?cont=*a6DsRGXJyB16ePRawUTioKeEuhqCqgRxgM0z8lix5pY_pHwosuHIkYHE1oKiWH6c7YXsSD_v_EJhcXWUDwrQW82DQTb_gegykjIpsGMt*syW99PifaMZQ_yR9i2QMcw" title="Forgot password?">Forgot password?</a><br />
<a class="support"
href="/login/new.html?cont=*a6DsRGXJyB16ePRawUTioKeEuhqCqgRxgM0z8lix5pY_pHwosuHIkYHE1oKiWH6c7YXsSD_v_EJhcXWUDwrQW82DQTb_gegykjIpsGMt*syW99PifaMZQ_yR9i2QMcw" title="New user? Sign up!">New user? Sign up!</a><br />
</div></div>

Any help is appreciated!

regards

Michiel

Try this

$ie.document.getElementById("ElementID").submit()

You can take a look here to see a working example on "Automated Web forms"
http://scriptolog.blogspot.com/2007/...web-forms.html



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Shay Levi
$cript Fanatic
http://scriptolog.blogspot.com

I just tested this very thing out, and I had to do this to get it to work:

$ie.document.getElementById("ElementID").click()

What came next has me stuck. It shows a dialog titled Security Information
that states "This page contains both secure and nonsecure items. Do you want
to display the nonsecure items?". While this is displayed, $ie.busy is
$true. I'm still looking but I thought I'd put it out there anyway. Does
anyone know how to detect a dialog like this and automatically click the Yes
button on it?

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"Shay Levi" <no@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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On Nov 7, 3:55 pm, "Kirk Munro" <so...@xxxxxx> wrote: Hmm, I know you're just trying to answer in a straightforward question/
answer way Kirk, but in reality, you should probably not be promoting
automated responses to security dialogue prompts; if you must, at
least automate the click for "no" (for this particular dialog). The
best case is that an image will fail to load, but the worst case is
that a cross-site scripting issue has allowed the injection of a
<script> tag with malicious code.

Yours paranoidly and semi-preachingly,

- Oisin / x0n

You're absolutely right Oisin, and I'm pretty sure it's just an image or
some such as well. So suggestions on how to make it click No? The end
result I'm looking for is just the same: detection and dismissal of that
dialog.

This isn't a high priority for me. It's just something I was looking at and
I know I'll come across in the future so I figured I'd put the question out
there now.

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"Oisin Grehan" <oising@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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"Shay Levi" wrote:
You put me on the right track again. I had tried .submit() before but I used
the wrong ElementID. For this page I had to use the form name at the
beginning:

$Sb.document.getElementById("login").submit()
That article has actually helped me a lot when I was working on another
script.

Thanks guys!

regards

Michiel

PS How can I find out that methods like submit() en click() exist for
getElementById

Kirk Munro wrote: Kirk,

Add it to your trusted sites list if you trust it. That would be my
initial recommendation.

---------------
Trevor Sullivan
MCP

Michiel,

When I was trying this out I entered the wrong element ID as well. It's
really easy to discover that you've entered the wrong element ID. If you
execute this:

$ie.document.getElementById("ElementID")

and nothing is output in PowerShell, meaning that $null is returned, then
your element wasn't found. So to make your script more robust, you might
want to break it up like this:

$element = $ie.document.getElementById("ElementID")
if ($element) {
$element.submit()
} else {
# output some error here
}

Also, to answer your question about discovering if certain methods exist on
an object in PowerShell, you need to use Get-Member.

So in this case, if you want to see all methods and properties (there are a
lot) on the element, just run this command:

$element | Get-Member | more

If you simply want to detect the existence of a particular method, do this
instead:

if ($element | Get-Member submit) {
$element.submit()
} elseif ($element | Get-Member click) {
$element.click()
} else {
# error handling code
}

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Poshoholic
http://poshoholic.com

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