Re^8: WWW::Mechanize::Firefox and dynamic pages

Is there a way to make

content()

look into frames? I added this to my code:

my @frames = $mech->expand_frames();

my $frame_ctr = 0;

for ($frame_ctr = 0; $frame_ctr < @frames; $frame_ctr++)
{
    printf("frames[%s] = %s\n", $frame_ctr, $frames[$frame_ctr]);
}
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But I'm not really sure what to do with the frames that were returned.

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Re^9: WWW::Mechanize::Firefox and dynamic pages by Corion (Patriarch) on Aug 01, 2013 at 06:52 UTC
What you get back are DOM nodes. You can access their attributes. For example, the `innerHTML` attribute: `print $frame->{innerHTML}` [download] By doing that, you've mostly left the area that WWW::Mechanize::Firefox supports and you will have to consult the Firefox documentation for what attributes and methods are supported.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^10: WWW::Mechanize::Firefox and dynamic pages by Special_K (Pilgrim) on Sep 21, 2013 at 06:44 UTC
Just because I hate finding questions online with no resolution, I'm coming back with the answer. Here is how I was able to find the link I was looking for within the page's HTML: `my @test_frames = $mech->xpath('/html/body/div/p/a', one => 1, frames +=> 1); printf(TEST_FH "result is %s\n", $test_frames[0]->{outerHTML});` [download] I obtained the xpath using Firebug (highlight the link on the webpage, right click, select "copy Xpath") then used the outerHTML (as opposed to innerHTML) to get the URL.	[reply] [d/l]