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Re: Automating simple web forms

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Excerpts from Eric Christopherson's message of Thu Mar 31 04:06:32 +0200 2011:
> What would be the best headless web testing/automation library to use,
> given that:
> 1. I want to automate filling in and submitting forms on one web site,
> which uses only a little JavaScript.
> 2. I want something that balances ease of use and stability, and is
> reasonably actively maintained
> ?

The only headless browser supporting JS I know about is HTMLUnit
(written in Java). I remember having seen some libraries providing Ruby
interfaces for it.

If you don't need JS mechanize etc are alternatives.

Marc Weber

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Automating simple web forms Eric Christopherson <echristopherson@gmail.com> - 2011-03-30 21:06 -0500
  Re: Automating simple web forms Bret Pettichord <bpettichord@gmail.com> - 2011-03-30 22:24 -0500
  Re: Automating simple web forms Marc Weber <marco-oweber@gmx.de> - 2011-03-31 17:35 -0500
    Re: Automating simple web forms Eric Christopherson <echristopherson@gmail.com> - 2011-03-31 19:42 -0500
      Re: Automating simple web forms Adam Prescott <adam@aprescott.com> - 2011-04-01 06:46 -0500
      Re: Automating simple web forms Brian Candler <b.candler@pobox.com> - 2011-04-01 08:07 -0500
    Re: Automating simple web forms Richard Conroy <richard.conroy@gmail.com> - 2011-04-01 07:05 -0500

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