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Re: javascript

From: Richard <antonyjones101_at_yahoo.com>
Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2006 13:47:41 +0000 (GMT)

Ralph,

What i'm looking to do is go to a website and send a
javascript command.

for example go to : http://www.blah.com
and do the command javascript:blah;

--- Ralph Mitchell <ralphmitchell_at_gmail.com> wrote:

> What do you mean by "send javascript commands"??
>
> I had some success back in 2002 using Mozilla's
> Spidermonkey
> javascript engine to process a proxy autoconfig file
> to decide whether
> to use a proxy or not. I used curl to grab the
> autoconfig file from
> the server, tacked on a small block of required
> functions and pushed
> it through js. The result was either "DIRECT" or
> the name of the
> proxy to use.
>
> If you're hoping to process a web page and "do the
> right thing" for
> the javascript it contains, there's a *lot* more
> work involved. You'd
> probably end up writing a large fraction of a web
> browser to be able
> to handle all the javascript that could show up.
>
> Ralph Mitchell
>
>
> On 3/22/06, Richard <antonyjones101_at_yahoo.com>
> wrote:
> > Hi Kjell,
> >
> > Thanks for the quick reply!
> >
> > That's a bit of a shame as being able to send
> > javascript commands would simplify my life
> immensely!
> >
> > Is there nothing out there at all that could be
> used
> > alongside libcurl to send javascript commands?
> >
> >
> > --- Kjell Ericson <Kjell.Ericson_at_haxx.se> wrote:
> >
> > > On Wed, 22 Mar 2006, Richard wrote:
> > >
> > > > I know that the faq of libcurl says that
> > > javascript isn't possible with
> > > > libcurl but was wondering if there had been
> any
> > > sort of add ons written
> > > > since that was published to allow javascript
> > > commands to be used with
> > > > libcurl?
> > >
> > > No.
> > >
> > > That is quite extensive work and I don't think
> > > anyone will do it within many
> > > years. I missed it sometimes myself, but when
> > > getting down to ground I don't
> > > really know what curl should do with the
> > > javascripts.
> > > It would be better to have a separate library
> > > handling javascripts and with a
> > > callback requests new web data.
> > >
> > > That new library could ofcourse use libcurl, but
> > > libcurl will probably never
> > > handle javascript itself.
> > >
> > > // Kjell
> > >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
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Received on 2006-03-22