From: Greg Hauptmann <greg.hauptmann.ruby@...>
Date: 2008-04-28T19:50:55+09:00
Subject: Re: help re recording/replaying (i.e. automating) HTTP interactions to a web-site???

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thanks Peter - I was starting to look at Mechanize but will focus in
at scRUBYt...
2008/4/28 Peter Szinek <peter@rubyrailways.com>:

> PS. 4th question Peter I forgot:
> > =95 does it support downloading a file (eg csv file, account transactio=
ns)
> >
> > On 4/27/08, Greg Hauptmann <greg.hauptmann.ruby@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > sounds good, it support:
> > > =95 https?
> > > =95 cookies?
> > > =95 building in some intelligence? (say when the link for step N will
> > > change over time but you can write an algorithm for it)
> > >
> > >
> Yes, scRUBYt! supports all these things... In the current implementation
> WWW::Mechanize is used as the agent, but it doesn't support JavaScript an=
d
> (more often than not)  e-banking sites have some JS... so that's why I
> suggested the FireWatir based solution.
>
> A browser-agnostic solution doesn't exist (Mechanize is a browser too) -
> the nature of the task requires a browser. Call it as you like, but if
> something is able to GET/POST requests, store cookies, use https, session=
s,
> .... then it is a browser in my vocabulary.
>
> Besides FireWatir is platform-independent (unlike Watir which is win32
> only).
>
> Cheers,
> Peter
>

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