From: Glen Holcomb <damnbigman@...>
Date: 2009-07-24T05:50:55+09:00
Subject: Re: Watching a website for periodic outages

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On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 1:41 PM, Kyle Schmitt <kyleaschmitt@gmail.com>wrote=
:

> Try recording and tweaking a JMeter script.  It may just work (after a
> fashion) without the javascript bits, as long as it's on when you do
> the initial recording.
>
> Humm... That becomes difficult.
>
>
Yeah, I was kind of hoping it would be a lot easier than it seems to be.
Watir doesn't seem to be the answer at all.  I just noticed a "pause" and
started my Watir script up.  It logs in but after about 10 seconds it tries
to click a link despite my explicit instructions not to until content has
loaded.  At least I thought they were explicit instructions.

def check_page
  loaded =3D false

  while !loaded
    if (@last_link =3D=3D "Employees" and @browser.link(:text, "Tax Forms")=
) or
(@last_link =3D=3D "Welcome" and @browser.link(:text, "Alternative
Transportation"))
      check_load_time
      loaded =3D true
    end
    sleep 15
  end
end

It seems to get out of this loop somehow without content loading.  That or
Watir gets content but the browser never renders the content.

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