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Dear colleagues, Could I get some assistance using postForm() to scrape the business names and addresses at this website: http://www.brantford.ca/business/LocalBusinessCommunity/Pages/BusinessDirectorySearch.aspx I've read through (http://www.omegahat.org/RCurl/RCurlJSS.pdf) and scoured the web for tutorials, but I can't crack it. I'm aware that this is probably a pretty basic question, but I need some help regardless. Yours, Simon Kiss library(XML) library(RCurl) library(scrapeR) library(RHTMLForms) #Set URL bus<-c('http://www.brantford.ca/busine...

...es need to be enabled for Scopus to function properly.\rPlease enable session cookies in your browser and try again. $`NULL` V1 V2 V3 1 $`NULL` V1 1 Cookies disabled $`NULL` V1 1 2 3 I have carefully read section 4.4. from this: http://www.omegahat.org/RCurl/RCurlJSS.pdf and tried the following without succes: curl <- getCurlHandle() curlSetOpt(cookiejar = 'cookies.txt', curl = curl) Any suggestions on how to allow for cookies? Thanks. Math -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/How-to-set-cookies-in-RCurl-tp4632693.html...

...option like 'head', but only found 'headerdata', which I assumed is not what I want. Then I also tried to understand what the individual RCurl options correspond to in terms of the "original" libcurl options and found a respective section in http://www.omegahat.org/RCurl/RCurlJSS.pdf (p. 10, The Request Options). Since the name of the libcurl option is 'head', a corresponding RCurl function should also be 'head'. Since it doesn't exist, I take it that it hasn't been implemented (yet), correct? Is there another way to request headers only? Thanks a l...