First, to control Netscape you can use the OLE interface on Win32 and the remote control interface on unix systems.

However, you probably don't want to do this. The type of testing most people do is along the lines of fetching a page and running a regex against the returnded HTML to check for correctness. There's no need to use Netscape or IE for this, since Perl is perfectly capable of doing it.

There are dozens of modules for automated web testing on CPAN. You might look at webchatpp, HTTP::WebTest, or HTTP::MonkeyWrench. Lots of others have been announced on the mod_perl list, but I can't remember all of their names now.

In reply to Re: Control the Web browser from the client-side? by perrin
in thread Control the Web browser from the client-side? by Maestro_007

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