Re: Running JavaScript in perl by proxy

[Joost]

If you want to run code in a browser (which you will need to do the XMLHttp requests) you have several choices:

Win32::IE::Mechanize and Mozilla::Mechanize are WWW::Mechanize re-implementations based on Explorer and Mozilla. I don't know much about Win32, but Mozilla::Mechanize is quite hard to install, since it has tons of dependencies.

An alternative are the Selenium modules. Those should be platform and browser independent.

[BaldPenguin]

From what I have been told and seen to date, Mechanize and it's derivatives do not process the JavaScript within the page. Is that assessment incorrect?

It may be possible to find the script nodes and process them with JavaScript, but that would get a little hairy when it came to the src includes inside a page.

[Joost]

WWW::Mechanize doesn't do javascript, but the other *Mechanize and Selenium modules I mentioned provide a scriptable API but use "normal" GUI browsers to do the real work. Which means they do more or less everything IE/Mozilla/Safari do, including Javascript.