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I found that we can read gmail messages from a terminal window by using

curl -u user --silent "https://mail.google.com/mail/feed/atom"

I would now like to submit some text (from a textarea + button press) from terminal. So what are the steps to identify the action triggered when a button is pressed and how to simulate the same actions in terminal ?

For example, I want to simulate 'pass data' & 'button press' (submit ) of http://tokira.net/unicode/index.php

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The first answer here: superuser.com/questions/149329/… should do what you want. You can find the param names for the <form> in the HTML. –  Jason Conti Jul 20 '13 at 18:53
@Jason Conti Thanks for the link. –  totti Aug 10 '13 at 5:37
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If you need something more complex than just submitting a post request (which can easily be done by cURL directly), you may want to check Mechanize, a ruby library for interacting with web pages.

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Interesting. Have a look –  totti Aug 20 '13 at 9:10
A bit hard to setup in slow network, But do well –  totti Oct 3 '13 at 9:16
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You can use lynx:

lynx http://tokira.net/unicode/index.php

By default lynx is not installed in Ubuntu, but you can install it with:

sudo apt-get install lynx
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