search through an external website

[k0r54]

Hi,

in UK we have a huge estate agents website called rightmove.co.uk. I am designing a website for a financial advisor and he wants to be able to search rightmove.co.uk from his site. It is as simple as entering search criteria and then clicking go. That will then load the rightmove site search results in a new windows.

All of this works but I have one problem, It worked fine for the first 30 min but then it said it has timed out everytime I click go. Is there a way around this at all?


<form method="post" action="http://www.rightmove.co.uk/action/publicsite.PropertySearch" target="_blank">
<input type="hidden" name="eventSubmit_doSearch" value="1" />
<input type="hidden" name="tr_t" value="buy" />
<input type="hidden" name="co_t" value="2" />
<input type="hidden" name="se_c" value="1" />
<input type="hidden" name="poi_e" value="0" />
<input type="hidden" name="poi_n" value="0" />
<input type="hidden" name="lo_u" value="169" />
<fieldset>
<p><label for="lo_n" class="top">Country:</label><br />
<select name="lo_n" size="1" class="combo">
<option value="Greece">Greece</option>
<option value="France">France</option>
<option value="Spain">Spain</option>
</select>
</p>
<p>
<label for="p_t" class="top">Type of property:</label>
<br />
<select name="p_t" size="1" class="combo">
<option value="-1">No Preference</option>
<option value="1">Houses</option>
<option value="2">Flat/Appartments</option>
<option value="5">Land</option>
<option value="8">Commercial Property</option>
</select>
</p>
<p>
<label for="mi_b" class="top">Bedrooms:</label>
<br />
<select name="mi_b" size="1" class="combo">
<option value="-1">No Preference</option>
<option value="1">1</option>
<option value="2">2</option>
<option value="3">3</option>
<option value="4">4</option>
<option value="5">5+</option>
</select>
</p>
<p>
<label for="mi_p" class="top">Minimum EUR:</label><br />
<select name="mi_p" size="1" class="combo">
<option value="-1">No Minimum</option>
<option value="20000">€20,000</option>
<option value="25000">€25,000</option>
<option value="30000">€30,000</option>
<option value="35000">€35,000</option>
<option value="40000">€40,000</option>
<option value="45000">€45,000</option>
<option value="50000">€50,000</option>
<option value="60000">€60,000</option>
<option value="70000">€70,000</option>
<option value="80000">€80,000</option>
<option value="90000">€90,000</option>
<option value="100000">€100,000</option>
<option value="110000">€110,000</option>
<option value="120000">€120,000</option>
<option value="130000">€130,000</option>
<option value="140000">€140,000</option>
<option value="150000">€150,000</option>
<option value="160000">€160,000</option>
<option value="170000">€170,000</option>
<option value="180000">€180,000</option>
<option value="190000">€190,000</option>
<option value="200000">€200,000</option>
<option value="225000">€225,000</option>
<option value="250000">€250,000</option>
<option value="275000">€275,000</option>
<option value="300000">€300,000</option>
<option value="325000">€325,000</option>
<option value="350000">€350,000</option>
<option value="375000">€375,000</option>
<option value="400000">€400,000</option>
<option value="425000">€425,000</option>
<option value="450000">€450,000</option>
<option value="475000">€475,000</option>
<option value="500000">€500,000</option>
<option value="550000">€550,000</option>
<option value="600000">€600,000</option>
<option value="650000">€650,000</option>
<option value="700000">€700,000</option>
<option value="800000">€800,000</option>
<option value="900000">€900,000</option>
<option value="1000000">€1,000,000</option>
<option value="1500000">€1,500,000</option>
<option value="2000000">€2,000,000</option>
<option value="3000000">€3,000,000</option>
</select>
</p>
<p>
<label for="ma_p" class="top">Maximum EUR:</label>
<br />
<select name="ma_p" size="1" class="combo">
<option value="nomaximum">No Maximum</option>
<option value="20000">€20,000</option>
<option value="25000">€25,000</option>
<option value="30000">€30,000</option>
<option value="35000">€35,000</option>
<option value="40000">€40,000</option>
<option value="45000">€45,000</option>
<option value="50000">€50,000</option>
<option value="60000">€60,000</option>
<option value="70000">€70,000</option>
<option value="80000">€80,000</option>
<option value="90000">€90,000</option>
<option value="100000">€100,000</option>
<option value="110000">€110,000</option>
<option value="120000">€120,000</option>
<option value="130000">€130,000</option>
<option value="140000">€140,000</option>
<option value="150000">€150,000</option>
<option value="160000">€160,000</option>
<option value="170000">€170,000</option>
<option value="180000">€180,000</option>
<option value="190000">€190,000</option>
<option value="200000">€200,000</option>
<option value="225000">€225,000</option>
<option value="250000">€250,000</option>
<option value="275000">€275,000</option>
<option value="300000">€300,000</option>
<option value="325000">€325,000</option>
<option value="350000">€350,000</option>
<option value="375000">€375,000</option>
<option value="400000">€400,000</option>
<option value="425000">€425,000</option>
<option value="450000">€450,000</option>
<option value="475000">€475,000</option>
<option value="500000">€500,000</option>
<option value="550000">€550,000</option>
<option value="600000">€600,000</option>
<option value="650000">€650,000</option>
<option value="700000">€700,000</option>
<option value="800000">€800,000</option>
<option value="900000">€900,000</option>
<option value="1000000">€1,000,000</option>
<option value="1500000">€1,500,000</option>
<option value="2000000">€2,000,000</option>
<option value="3000000">€3,000,000</option>
</select>
</p>
<p><input type="submit" name="cmdweblogin2" class="button" value="Go!" />
</p>
</fieldset>
</form>


Thanks
k0r54

[ray326]

Looks to me like that site is running a Java web app on Tomcat/Apache and the 30 minutes is some kind of session timeout.

[k0r54]

do you reckon there is a way around it?

Thanks
k0r54

[ray326]

In general, no. For folks with Javascript enabled you might be able to make sure the browser doesn't send the JSESSIONID cookie and see if that helps.

[k0r54]

Hi how would I do that?

[ray326]

http://www.google.com/search?q=javascript+cookie