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<node id="295765" title="Re: On being a browser" created="2003-10-01 17:15:29" updated="2005-06-26 13:11:50">
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&lt;p&gt;I'll definitely have a look at your Samie. We do have (in production for more than a year) a similar VB solution, but I'd of course prefer a Perl one.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;What we have is a COM object that wraps the browser (actually up to four browser windows) and provides similar methods like Samie. Then there is a service that loads the data and commands from database, instantiates the COM object and drives it through the pages. At times it's pretty slow, especialy if the site I need to work with is slow. Apart from running several instances of the service I don't see a way to work on several sites at once.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Did you try to run several Samies in several threads? How do you handle popup windows?&lt;/p&gt;

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&lt;p&gt;Jenda&lt;br&gt;
&lt;small&gt;&lt;i&gt;Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code
will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live.&lt;br&gt;
&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;-- Rick Osborne&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/small&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;small&gt;Edit by [castaway]: Closed small tag in signature&lt;/small&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</field>
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