Even if you can run JavaScript within your script via something like JavaScript::SpiderMonkey, it will still be a challenge to understand the browser's DOM completely. JavaScript itself doesn't know what an "onClick" event is, it's just a language. Only in combination with the browser's DOM you get this powerful browser-scripting ability. I heard that leira is working on something like that.

Until then, I'd recommend using a logging proxy like proxy.pl. Just start it on the command line like 

    ./proxy.pl

[download]

and when it says Server listening at port 8017, point your browser to it via Preferences-Advanced-Proxies, where you click on Manual Proxy Configuration and set the HTTP proxy entry to localhost and port 8017.

With this enabled, the logging proxy will tell you exactly what he browser sends over the wire when you're surfing, and you can simply wrap its output into a WWW::Mechanize script.

In reply to Re: WWW::Mechanize and javascript by saintmike
in thread WWW::Mechanize and javascript by rhxk

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