Thanks that's great!
This seems to sort of work, it does grab the same session if the session_id is in the constructor). I just found that I can get the existing session_id using

$sel->retrieve_last_remote_control_logs();

And can probably regex it out (I'm cut& pasting right now) - and store it somewhere if I leave the server running and relaunch my automation. Otherwise make a new session and then save teh session_id with that command or yours.

Selenium complains if I give it a 'magic string' that is not a real existing session_id, but if I give it the id of a real, existing session that is up it seems happy to use it. That seems to mean it can't be started up with arbitary session_id the server has to generate one - but if that can be captured it can be reused

However, selenium seems to require me to open a URL

$sel->open_ok("$url");

before it will allow clicking on anything. However this makes my site think I'm navigating away and makes a popup forcing me to choose to log out or abanodon the new attempts at hijacking the session! Needless to say, I didn't write the site I'm just trying to get it to do something quicker than I can type.

Still this is progress!! - Thanks so much

(off to bed now - I'll type up a full solution when I get it working)

In reply to Re^4: Selenium RC - How to reuse bowser session? by zerocred
in thread Selenium RC - How to reuse bowser session? by zerocred

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