Wise ones:

WWW::Robot seems to work well for following URLs of various types as long as they are type http. But I am getting confused as to where I would set up the ability to follow a link that uses JavaScript to open.window example html/JS further below).

My instance of WWW::Robot is similar to most that I see out there. Can anyone point me to a good source of info on this? Many thanks. 

...
my $robot = WWW::Robot->new
      (
       NAME => 'UsageBot',
       VERSION => '1.0',
       EMAIL => 'me@myaddress.com',
       USERAGENT => LWP::UserAgent->new,
       CHECK_MIME_TYPES => 0,
       IGNORE_TEXT => 0
       );
    
    $robot->addHook
      ("follow-url-test" => sub {
         my ($robot, $hook, $url) = @_;
         return 0 unless $url->scheme eq 'http';
         OK_TO_FOLLOW($url);
       });

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Doesn't seem to follow existing HTML like this: 

<a href="#"  onClick="popWindow('usage')"...>...</a>
function popWindow(wintype){
if (wintype == "usage"){window.open 'usage_stats.html',
 'server_stat...)...}

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In reply to WWW:Robot to follow links through JavaScript by Anonymous Monk

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