From: Michael Fellinger <m.fellinger@...>
Date: 2010-05-21T02:15:08+09:00
Subject: Re: Scrape javascript content

On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 1:14 AM, Phil Mcdonnell
<phil.a.mcdonnell@gmail.com> wrote:
> The other trick here is that this page is behind a login.  Mechanize
> allows me to fill out the login form and holds onto the login
> credentials for me.  Can harmony/celebrity/watir do this?

Watir definitely does that since it simply controls your browser and
therefore behaves exactly like one.

>>
>> The *really* interesting part is what does the Javascript do :-) with
>> (a potentially large) effort you may be able to "reverse-engineer" the
>> javascript and emulate manually in mechanize.  I.e. if the javascript
>> builds a simple HTTP request, you may be able to send the same request
>> from mechanize (possibly) without much effort.
>
> How would one do this?  I'm somewhat new to javascript as I usually
> don't do front end engineering.  I see the below definition of this
> function in the HTML page.  Any way I can sniff out what it's actually
> doing?  I'm looking to figure out what the fireClick method displays.
>
>    <script type="text/javascript">
>      var d = document.domain.split(".");
>      document.domain = d[d.length - 2] + "." + d[d.length - 1];
>      var start = (new Date()).getTime();
>      var fireClick = function(){};
>      var omn_hierarchy="US|AMEX|Ser|eStatement";
>      var omn_pagename="MainPage";
>      var omn_language="en";
>      var omn_newpagename="yes";
>    </script>
>
> ... way down below...
>
> <td class="colPlus" onclick="fireClick(this,0)">
>                    <a id="iroc_0" class="plus" href="#" onclick="return
> false;">&nbsp;</a>
> </td>
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>



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