Dear group members, As a research project I am attempting to create a hybrid crawler, the functionality of which should be the following: - fetch pages in both plain http and ssl. - run javascripts but also be able to not run them on demand. - parse the content of these pages and access their DOM tree.
I found Gecko to be more than what the doctor ordered, in the sense that as a server-side type application, I do not need all the UI functionality already built into Gecko. I have searched the web and some of the mozilla newsgroups (dev.embedding, dev.builds) for an answer to the question: "can i embed gecko for the above functionality without all the UI overhead?" and did not find one. Moreover, it seems that currently this cannot be done. As a last attempt to receive an "official" answer, i'm posting this message here. If indeed my understanding is correct and this is currently impossible, I would like to inquire if this is in any way part of a future release. Any information will be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance, Eyal Lewinsohn. p.s. I'm sorry if you feel I have selected the wrong group for this post. Please let me know to where it should be posted. _______________________________________________ dev-tech-layout mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-tech-layout
