Hi Monks,
I am trying to retrieve some data from a web page that implements the following DEFER method.
<script language="javascript1.1" defer src="a_script.js">

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This is similar to what you see when searching a site like Expedia that displays an interum page telling you its off looking for hotels or flights or whatever whilst loading the results.
The DEFER keyword tells the browser to continue processing the page because there is no displayed output from it. This means that my script captures the interum page, sees the DEFER keyword and finish drawing the interum page and finishes. This does not seem to be the case however as the completion of this script displays the results. This means that I can't get to the final data.
I tried downloading the script separately and inserting it into the page inside <SCRIPT> headers whilst removing the script line with the DEFER line in it in an attempt to have the script run on one page, but that did not seem to work.
Have anyone had any experience with getting data in this fashion and can offer some advice?

Regards Paul

In reply to Retrieving Deferred Content by thekestrel

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