Re: [Bug-wget] wget not the right tool to scrape jsf/ajax site?

[Tim Ruehsen]

Am Friday 18 January 2013 schrieb Ryan, Lyle:
> Hello, bug-wget.  I hope this is the right list for user questions.
> 
> For years, we've been happy calling wget to log in to our website and
> report back the findings to Nagios (ie verify the website functionality). 
>  But our new incarnation of the site is built with jsf/ajax, and evidently
> expects the requestor to interpret javascript.   Googling shows that
> others have the same problem, as wget is not a javascript-enabled browser.
> 
> Any suggestions for a better tool or how to do it with wget?   This is on a
> "headless" Solaris box, so the tool needs to be called from a shell
> script.

Hi,

first of all, wget does not parse and interpret javascript.

There is 'elinks', that seems to support javascript (limited).
http://elinks.or.cz/documentation/manual.html

But then, if you give us detailed information of what you exactly do, there 
might be a solution using wget. After all, javascript might do some fancy 
stuff, but at one point it comes down to a HTTP(S) request... 

> 
> Thanks....Lyle

Regards, Tim