From: Xavier Noria <fxn@...>
Date: 2009-07-25T17:22:04+09:00
Subject: Re: Watching a website for periodic outages

On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 10:50 PM, Glen Holcomb<damnbigman@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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 = false
>
>  while !loaded
>    if (@last_link == "Employees" and @browser.link(:text, "Tax Forms")) or
> (@last_link == "Welcome" and @browser.link(:text, "Alternative
> Transportation"))
>      check_load_time
>      loaded = 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.
>
> --
> "Hey brother Christian with your high and mighty errand, Your actions speak
> so loud, I can’t hear a word you’re saying."
>
> -Greg Graffin (Bad Religion)
>