Mechanize users - Jan 2010 - How do I mechanize a link like this?

Here is the clip:

onclick="window.open(''/view/viewFullBill.doview''

There are some other things obviously....but is this just another agent.get?

Mike B.

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Mechanize doesn''t support JavaScript. So any links that have onclick
events,
or use javascript as their href won''t work. Check out Watir gem

You can also look into Johnson or Lyndon (if you use MacRuby). These both
can handle Javascript.

Good luck.

~Jeremy



On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 5:17 PM, barsalou <barjunk at attglobal.net>
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> Here is the clip:
>
> onclick="window.open(''/view/viewFullBill.doview''
>
> There are some other things obviously....but is this just another
> agent.get?
>
> Mike B.
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Or, you can do something like:

agent.get  page.content.match(/window\.open\(''([^'']+)/)[1]

That''s completely untested, but you get the gist. Use a regex to pull
out
the URL, then get it.

Aaron


On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 10:27 AM, Jeremy Woertink
<jeremywoertink at gmail.com>wrote:
> Mechanize doesn''t support JavaScript. So any links that have
onclick
> events, or use javascript as their href won''t work. Check out
Watir gem
>
> You can also look into Johnson or Lyndon (if you use MacRuby). These both
> can handle Javascript.
>
> Good luck.
>
> ~Jeremy
>
>
>
> On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 5:17 PM, barsalou <barjunk at attglobal.net>
wrote:
>
>> Here is the clip:
>>
>> onclick="window.open(''/view/viewFullBill.doview''
>>
>> There are some other things obviously....but is this just another
>> agent.get?
>>
>> Mike B.
>>
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Quoting Aaron Starr <astarr at wiredquote.com>:
> Or, you can do something like:
>
> agent.get 
page.content.match(/window\.open\(''([^'']+)/)[1]
>
> That''s completely untested, but you get the gist. Use a regex to
pull out
> the URL, then get it.
>
That''s a good idea too.  I think in this case that link won''t
change, however.

Is there a way to capture, besides ethereal, what a web page is  
posting so I can mimick the actions?

Maybe some sort of firefox plugin?

There is this javascript thing that happens then produces the page I  
want....maybe I''ll have to resort to ethereal....

Mike B.

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On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 1:14 PM, barsalou <barjunk at attglobal.net>
wrote:
> [...]
> Is there a way to capture, besides ethereal, what a web page is posting so
> I can mimick the actions?
> [...]
>
I like Charles. http://www.charlesproxy.com/
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