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Re: parsing values of pull down menu

From: James Wright <jameswright_at_drag-and-drop.com>
Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2006 11:26:11 +0000

Now I know why I lurk on so many lists, I'd never heard of Selenium,
it's really going to help me debugging my web apps.

Cheers Kjell!

On 23 Mar 2006, at 11:02, Kjell Ericson wrote:

> On Thu, 23 Mar 2006, Pankaj wrote:
>
>> Using this i Get the page in HTML format but I want it in text
>> format.
>> How do I tell curl to select option "TEXT".
>
> You don't. Curl transfers the content you want but doesn't parse
> any HTML for you.
>
> I would write my own HTML-parser to find the part of the page I want.
>
>> I want to automate this process.
>
> A bit off topic is that you might want to try "Selenium IDE" (look
> at Google). That will do your part, but requires that you manually
> starts the procedure. Selenium is a tool to redo the actions of a
> real user.
>
> // Kjell
>
>

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