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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.
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Re^3: Executing Javascript from HTML pages in perl
by Aristotle (Chancellor) on Nov 06, 2002 at 23:29 UTC
    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.

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      In the case where the code needs to run on the client side.
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        Right, but what does it do? You can't save anything locally using Javascript; if you want to permanently affect anything you have to eventually invoke something on the server - and at that point, LWP can be plugged in.

        Makeshifts last the longest.

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Re: Re: Re: Executing Javascript from HTML pages in perl
by Mr. Muskrat (Canon) on Nov 07, 2002 at 14:26 UTC

    But who uses stylesheets or DHTML in an LWP script?

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      What about JavaScript's other uses? The guy never said that the JavaScript was DHTML; I was trying to bring up the point that JavaScript DOES have other uses besides poorly done client-side dynamic content.
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        That's true, javascript does have other uses... I still don't see why it would be necessary to run a client-side javascript when the same result could be accomplished within the LWP script that the OP is trying to work on.

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