It sounds to me that someone's breaking the standards, if they're using a deferred script to generate content.

Your best bet would be to educate the site's maintainers into writing correct HTML, and not using various quirks in browser implementations to try to accomplish something that they should have done with multipart mime, or some other form of server push.

(although, quite a few browsers choke on multipart mime, like 1.x versions of Safari, which only shows the final part, and not the earlier stages)

Of course, you've never shown how it is that you're attempting to scrape the page, which could make this a perl related question, and might provide a basis for people to suggest refinements. (sure, you've explained it in words, but there's no code example).

In reply to Re: Retrieving Deferred Content by jhourcle
in thread Retrieving Deferred Content by thekestrel

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