Hi Warren,
I wrote some comments on dealing with javascript from a scraper for this
list. You can find the comments, e.g. at
http://www.codecomments.com/message443297.html - It doesn't sound like
that's really a solution to your problem, however, since presumably you
want to test the javascript produced by the cgi.
An other alternative, if you are using Windows - there is a iex-based
implementation of Mech, *Win32::IE::Mechanize*
<http://search.cpan.org/author/ABELTJE/Win32-IE-Mechanize-0.008/lib/Win32/IE/Mechanize.pm>
which uses Internet explorer instead of libwww as the underlying browser
implementation. I have no idea in what state the code is or whether
javascript works, but it might be worth looking into (and I'd really
appreciate hearing some feedback on how it works, because I have this
problem, too ;-) ).
Cheers,
Peter
Warren Pollans wrote:
Hello,
I've been using WWW::Mechanize to automate testing of cgi scripts -
works great!
The problem I'm running into is "trying to deal with scripts that use
javascript" - so far, I've had to ignore them or, at least, those
widgets/forms that rely on javascript. Googling hasn't led anywhere
besides statements that Mech doesn't handle javascript - I got that
far myself :-)
Is there a way to get Mech to handle javascript? Has anyone been able
to do this? Anyone working on it? Or have I missed something?
I really like being able to test from my unix box instead of having to
find a windows box to run quicktest pro or winrunner on.
Thanks,
Warren
