Looking for HTTP meta-post Source Code from prior to July 1998

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Hi,
I'm doing research for a client. My client needs to know when was the first time someone wrote code to submit a document from one website to multiple websites automatically?

I need a quotable reference – either online or in a book – of some code written prior to July 1998 that does this. We are looking for an example that basically spells out these steps:
1. collects the user information
2. stores the user information in a database and maps to site-specific fields of each website
3. automatically goes to the correct webpage within each site
4. automatically populates the site-specific fields on those pages with the mapped information
5. forms URL query strings from the filled-in site specific fields of each of the websites
6. submits the URL query strings to each of the websites
7. displays results to the user

We are not particular to the type of document but one example could be some code that submits a resume to multiple websites at once to offer convenience to the user to not have to go to each website individually to submit their resume.

Posted 15-May-12 11:21am

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[no name] 15-May-12 18:29pm

You want code examples from 14 years ago? :wtf:

Sandeep Mewara 16-May-12 2:09am

I am not even sure if this is the right forum for this question. But ok.
BTW, did you search for it, Google/Bing? I have no doubts that even if someone tries to reply you, he/she would need to do some search.

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Bernhard Hiller · Answer 1 · 2012-05-15T21:26:00

In the era before Google, there were several search engines in use which hardly anyone knows today (Altavista, WebCrawler, ...). The workflow you describe corresponds to a "metacrawler": it sends the request to several search engines, and displays all of the results. According to Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MetaCrawler[^]) such Metacrawlers were developed already in 1994.
Do you remeber the era when we used Lynx or even Gopher for browsing the web?