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[stevo]

I am an undergraduate engineering student. My friend told me about a program, written by a past student, that constantly sends requests to the online class registration service at my university. This way, when the class opens up, he immediately gets into the one he wants. Just wondering if you guys know how to go about doing this.

I have experience with Fortran and a little with C++. Please keep this in mind when sending your suggestions. Thanks! -Stevo

[stevo]

Is there any reason this would not be possible to write in Fortran? I have much more experience with this language. Do you have any examples that could explain how to "connect to port 80 and retrieve the HTML data"?

Also, once the program recognizes the class is open, how does it send the information to fill in the blanks and register automatically?

[BlaineSch]

I could not find anything to deal with it.

Honestly it wont hurt to expand your programming knowledge, and since it wont be a hard program in all, I would suggest just reading up on a new language.

[sdavis2702]

I would have to agree with BlaineSch. It's a perfect opportunity to learn more. I think it's definitely an interesting idea. I am in the same boat as a Computer Information Systems student at DeVry online and it's hard to get registered from out here in Iraq. However, I have to register through an Army portal which would probably complicate this entire process.

[relapse]

This could be done and sounds like a good starter project.

[ruskin012]

You know C++, you can do it in c++.

[dargueta]

I've done something similar at my school. I did the process once myself, saving each web page I was taken to. Later I went through the HTML, figured out the process, and then automated it. It's not that bad, really.