Re: ChatGPT failed me

[Robert <http://dummy.us.eu.org/robert>]

 > From: Brian <http://www.cs..edu/~b>
 > Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2023 09:52:08 -0700
 >
 > On 4/18/23 8:23 AM, Robert wrote:
 > > FWIW, I would use wget or curl instead of lynx.  Lynx is incredibly
 > > complicated and getting around what it does naturally (e.g., user agent
 > > and cookie management) is tricky.
 > 
 > But I'm not trying to retrieve a file; I'm trying to fill in forms 
 > pseudo-interactively.

Yeah.  Still may be easier with wget or curl.

I'm surprised that nobody has invented something like "expect"
(https://wiki.tcl-lang.org/page/Expect ) for the web to do these sorts of
things, even if at a textual level (such as lynx).  This may be worth
adding to the big pile of projects that I would like to do some day, but
never will.