I have a win32 ppm package of Javascript here

Documentation is kind of scarce for Javascript, but you're in luck, there exists Javascript::SpiderMonkey by the same author, which is being actively maintained (see documentation).

I'll see about putting up a ppm of Javascript::SpiderMonkey later.

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I am running my code on linux so the Javascript::SpiderMonkey won't help. I beleve Javascript.pm has very limited funcionalitity.

also, I found a posting...

update (broquaint): put link in URL so as not to break the node

but what do I do when it comes to javascripting?

Ignore it. Odds are it won't affect how you work.

Do you have an example or something in particular in mind?

John J Reiser
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An example of a url would be https://chaseonline.chase.com/chaseonline/logon/sso_logon.jsp. If you try to do a get with LWP, it says that your browswer does not support javascript. Also, if you look a the source code, the post action is to a javascript. Similarly if you look at yahoo, the login requires it post to a javascript which in turn does a post.

That all depends on why the javascript was included in the HTML. So take a good, long look at that javascript and ask yourself: Do I really need this? If your answer is yes, then provide the same functionality in your Perl script.

And what if the javascript happens to be DOM manipulation (i.e. the stylesheet maninipulation I use in Text::ParagraphDiff output), or a form checker? Not everything javascript can do can be mimicked with perl.

But in which way would that make it not possible to mimick the GET/POST requests a user agent would eventually send?

Makeshifts last the longest.

But who uses stylesheets or DHTML in an LWP script?