From: Greg Hauptmann <greg.hauptmann.ruby@...>
Date: 2008-04-27T06:18:43+09:00
Subject: Re: help re recording/replaying (i.e. automating) HTTP interactions to a web-site???

sounds good, it support:
• https?
• cookies?
• building in some intelligence? (say when the link for step N will
change over time but you can write an algorithm for it)

thanks

On 4/26/08, Peter Szinek <peter@rubyrailways.com> wrote:
> Greg,
>
> Have you  looked into (Fire)Watir?
>
> I am just releasing a new version of scRUBYt!  (a web scraping
> framework) where it will be possible to use FireWatir as the agent for
> navigation/scraping, so you can write a simple but powerful DSL (stuff
> like 'click_link', 'fill_textfield' etc) which is executed through
> Firefox and is very well suited for scenarios you just described. Drop
> me a line if you are interested.
>
> But of course plain (Fire)Watir would do, too.
>
> Cheers,
> Peter
> ___
> http://www.rubyrailways.com
> http://scrubyt.org
>
> On Apr 26, 2008, at 10:47 AM, Greg Hauptmann wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > Actually can anyone recommend a good technique / software / plugin
> > that would assist if I wanted to effectively (a) record my interaction
> > with my bank at the HTTP level, then (b) use this to automate that
> > behavior in my RoR application to automate pulling down daily account
> > details?
> >
> > The best I can think of at the moment is: (a) Firefox Live HTTP
> > Headers plugin then (b) manually write Ruby code that sends these out
> > and waits for the response & check it before proceeding to the next
> > http request.  I'm thinking someone probably has a better way, or
> > plugin, to handle at least part (b)?
> >
> > Tks
> >
>
>