Mechanize with AJAX

zer has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Ok this is one that is stumping me, and I am pretty sure there isn't a way to do it. However perl has always been about making the difficult things possible.

With a regular website you can parse through and interact with it very easily with WWW::Mechanize, however with all the hype around ajax these days, these websites become a lot more challenging to go through.

Is there anything out there as of yet which can achieve the results of WWW::Mechanize or close to it through ajax riddled forms?

Thank you

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Re: Mechanize with AJAX by marto (Cardinal) on Dec 27, 2007 at 09:26 UTC
Sounds like you want to use something like Mozilla::Mechanize or Win32::IE::Mechanize to drive a browser which will be able to deal with JavaScript. Hope this helps Martin	[reply]
Re^2: Mechanize with AJAX by zer (Deacon) on Dec 28, 2007 at 07:15 UTC
ya for some reason mozilla mechanize wont install. So now im looking at http injection	[reply]
Re: Mechanize with AJAX by Gangabass (Vicar) on Dec 27, 2007 at 09:26 UTC
You always (WebDeveloper extension for Firefox) can see what request is your browser sending to site (via AJAX) and after that make same request in your program (via WWW::Mechanize).	[reply]
Re^2: Mechanize with AJAX by ian (Beadle) on Dec 27, 2007 at 19:58 UTC
I'll save the next person the google search and post the link for the WebDeveloper Addon. -- Ian Tegebo	[reply]
Re: Mechanize with AJAX by stark (Pilgrim) on Dec 27, 2007 at 18:51 UTC
You can use Selenium.	[reply]


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