On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 1:23 PM, choi2k <rex.0...@gmail.com> wrote: > The application aims to simulate user activity including visit a > website and perform some interactive actions (click on the menu, > submit a form, redirect to another pages...etc) > I have found some libraries / plugins which aims to simulate browser > activity but ... none of them support AJAX request and/or running > javascript. > > Here is one of the simple tasks which I would like to do using the > application: > 4. post ajax request using javascript and if the page has been > redirected, load the new page content
To the web server, everything is a request. Don't think in terms of Javascript; there is no Javascript, there is no AJAX, there is not even a web browser. There's just a TCP socket connection and an HTTP request. That's all you have. On that basis, your Python script most definitely can simulate the request. It needs simply to make the same HTTP query that the Javascript would have made. The only tricky part is figuring out what that request would be. If you can use a non-SSL connection, that'll make your job easier - just get a proxy or packet sniffer to monitor an actual web browser, then save the request headers and body. You can then replay that using Python; it's not difficult to handle cookies and such, too. Hope that helps! ChrisA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list