[SLL] Off subject question.

[Glenn Stone]

On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 01:32:06PM -0700, Ken Rea wrote:
> On Tue, 19 Aug 2008, Brian Hatch wrote:
>
>> Bordering on 2008-08-19 12:37 -0700, Ken Rea mouthed:
>>
>>> We have a client that needs to get registration information when their
>>> client installs software.
>>
>> Have the registration involve going to a web page to input information
>> which then provides the key they need to register the product.  Then
>> they must have gone to the website where you can log it as desired.
>
> Thanks for the reply. They wanted to automated the whole process so the  
> client did not have to punch information again on a web page. I guess 
> they want to make it easy.
>
> Still looking for ideas.

Use curl(1).  curl is a batch-orietned web client that supports SSL and HTTP
POST; you could simply set up a web form on your server that took whatever
data you generated/took as input from the installer, and spat back the key (or
whatever else) in easily-parseable format, which you could then display,
store, or use to generate further actions.

Now, exactly *how* you would want to do that is (a) probably way outside the
scope of this list and (b) something that's either going to cost you bucks
or sweat equity.  Since I'm not in a position to solicit the bucks at the
moment, I'll point you at the sweat equity method, AKA TFM: 

http://curl.haxx.se/docs/manpage.html

-- Glenn