Well, there are lots of reasons why I’m not using ASP.NET. The reason
today, though, is that it seems to be impossible to post to an ASP.NET
website using a non-browser tool such as wget or Python’s urllib.
There’s a huge __VIEWSTATE form variable, and links seem to call a
JavaScript function called __doPostBack(). Of course, it requires
JavaScript to work. This is shit. Yes it is. Fortunately,
__doPostBack() doesn’t do anything very complicated in the page I want
to manipulate. Sadly, though, I’ve tried POSTing what I think the output
of the form will be to the URL, and I get no love from it at all. Lots
of <H1>Bad Request</h1> and the like. Has anyone dealt with this problem?
Why I’m not using ASP.NET
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