I have to do the following: given a page loaded from a server, I have to submit a form in that page automatically after loading it, filling up all of its input fields with the same string (test worked). This is obviously a simplification of my problem, but it's close enough!

At the moment I am getting the form, and using https://github.com/cheeriojs/cheerio to explore it:

var URL = http://www.example.com/form/index.html

// ...load the page ...

$ = cheerio.load( fetchedPageText );

At the moment, I have the following code:

var $ = cheerio.load( fetchedPageText );



var forms = $('form');

for( var i1 = 0, l1 = forms.length; i1 < l1; i1 ++ ){

  var form = forms[ i1 ];



  inputFields = $( 'input', form );





  console.log(******FORM ACTION: , form.attribs.action );

  console.log(******FORM: , form );



  for( var i2 = 0, l2 = inputFields.length; i2 < l2; i2 ++ ){

    var inputField = inputFields[ i2 ];



    console.log( inputField );

    console.log(**************INPUT FIELD , inputField );





    /* At this point, I have `action` and every input field */





  }

};

Questions:

• At the moment, submit is relative to the page I have downloaded. How do I make sure that I submit things in the right spot? Should I do url.parse and work out the gull path for the action from the URL?




• How do you actually create a post string? Or, even better, how would you post this form?




• I realise that this might not work (the form might have Javascript, etc.). However, is there anything else I need to be careful about, when submitting this form?