Command Line Prompt To Web Server


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Hi every1

my boss at work has instructed me to make a database containing all the printers we have here (32 of them).

well i have done that and i now have to make my database fully updateable without leaving the office. the main thing that i want to update is the page count of the printers. at the moment i have it set up so you can just click on a hyperlink i have created for each printer going straight to their firmware, and from there you can view the page count. well my boss said that isnt good enough and wants me to make the database automatically update it when ever i open it. i have figured out how to do it all but i need a program that allows a command prompt to talk to a web server (due to the web server {aka firmware} sending a 'GET' statement to the printer and then getting a reply from the printer {this is where the firmware gets the page count from}) well i have intercepted this message and coppied it but need to b able to convert it from HTML coding to an ASCII script.. does any 1 hav a program that will do this for me?

regaurds from

Mavarik

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What operating system, what database, and are all the printer pages (the HTML pages you're fetching, I mean) identical?

If the pages are identical, you could post one here as an attachment and I could take a pass at writing a script.

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