We have updated and improved the Domain Management option that was available in older versions of Watch My Domains ISP and Domain Punch Professional. This has been replaced with what we now call the "Web Forms Manager".
What is Web Forms Manager?
Web Forms Manager is a tool for quickly logging into your registrar management account, web hosting interface or any other on-line resource.
Some setup is required for this.
You need to know the POST URL and the POST data variable names. If you have some knowledge of HTML you can quickly inspect the HTML source of the web page in question and create a compatible setting within Domain Punch Pro or Watch My Domains ISP.
How To Access Web Forms Manager?
To access the Web Forms Manager, right click on any domain and select "Web Forms Manager" from the menu. By highlighting a domain before invoking the Web Forms Manager, you will have access to any of the record values for that domain as a parameter in the POST data.
For example, If you highlight softnik.com and invoke the Web Forms Manager, you can use {Domain} as an entry in the POST data. The software will automatically replace {Domain} with softnik.com. If you use {Registry Expiry} as a POST data, it will be replaced with the actual registry expiry date when the web form is invoked.
See the list under the Allowed Merge Fields list to see all the allowed merge parameters.
Adding Your own Merge Fields
You can add custom merge fields to the list. These appear within a pair of [] and can be used within the POST data.
Here is an example setting for Tucows.
URL: https://manage.opensrs.net/index
Post Data:
reg_domain={domain}
reg_username=[Tucows Login]
reg_password=[Tucows Password]
action=login
You need to add two custom merge Fields called Tucows Login and Tucows Password (and set the values to your actual login name and password) to use the above settings.
Limitations and a Warning!
The Web Forms manager will not work on sites that use extensive Java script or use complicated session management. It will also not work if your registry settings have been changed to prevent access to Internet Explorer through the Windows shell API.
Please don’t setup your actual login names and passwords in computers that are not secure. If you do it anyone can run Domain Punch Pro or Watch My Domains ISP on that computer to access your domain registrar account!
Checking the POST Data
You can quickly check if the POST variables are being posted properly by creating a simple PHP script containing the following one line entry.
<?php print_r($_POST); ?>
Upload it to your server and change the URL in the Web Forms Manager to your test URL. Click the Run button and your script will display all the POST data values. Use it to find problems with the settings in Web Forms Manager.
