[Chicago-talk] HTML is just java script, not the data that you get by manually browsing

Andy Lester andy at petdance.com
Fri Jun 4 21:28:20 CDT 2004


> Is there some general way that I can interact with the
> javascript to get the final result?

No.  None.  Please read to see what the FAQ has to say about it.

http://search.cpan.org/dist/WWW-Mechanize/lib/WWW/Mechanize/ 
FAQ.pod#How_can_I_get_WWW::Mechanize_to_execute_this_JavaScript?

How can I get WWW::Mechanize to execute this JavaScript?

You can't. JavaScript is entirely client-based, and WWW::Mechanize is a  
client that doesn't understand JavaScript.

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