From whitethunder922 at yahoo.com  Tue Jun 26 11:33:45 2007
From: whitethunder922 at yahoo.com (Matt White)
Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2007 08:33:45 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [Mechanize-users] (no subject)
Message-ID: <677942.5894.qm@web53311.mail.re2.yahoo.com>

Hello,

I am on a page that lists 78 items and can only show 25 per page, so there are links for each page of results and a "Next >" link. I'd like to get Mechanize to follow the Next link but the link looks like this:

<a class='searchlinks' href='javascript:lnkclick(2);'>Next ></a>

If I try to "click" the link, Mechanize raises an "unsupported scheme" exception. At this point I am using all sorts of fun regular expressions to parse the Javascript and send the appropriate values to the page with a WWW::Mechanize.post call. Is there an easier way? Thanks.




       
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From schapht at gmail.com  Fri Jun 29 09:22:40 2007
From: schapht at gmail.com (Mat Schaffer)
Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2007 09:22:40 -0400
Subject: [Mechanize-users] (no subject)
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On Jun 26, 2007, at 11:33 AM, Matt White wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I am on a page that lists 78 items and can only show 25 per page,  
> so there are links for each page of results and a "Next >" link.  
> I'd like to get Mechanize to follow the Next link but the link  
> looks like this:
>
> <a class='searchlinks' href='javascript:lnkclick(2);'>Next ></a>
>
> If I try to "click" the link, Mechanize raises an "unsupported  
> scheme" exception. At this point I am using all sorts of fun  
> regular expressions to parse the Javascript and send the  
> appropriate values to the page with a WWW::Mechanize.post call. Is  
> there an easier way? Thanks.

Not yet, I don't think.  Javascript support would be awesome, but  
it's a heafty beast to tackle.  The last time I needed to do  
javascript stuff, i basically ended up using a combination of regexps  
and lots of code tracing to make the same requests that the  
javascript would have made.  Charles is a handy tool for viewing the  
final request.
-Mat
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From whitethunder922 at yahoo.com  Fri Jun 29 10:20:28 2007
From: whitethunder922 at yahoo.com (Matt White)
Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2007 07:20:28 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [Mechanize-users] (no subject)
Message-ID: <371009.74625.qm@web53301.mail.re2.yahoo.com>

Thanks Mat.

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From: Mat Schaffer <schapht at gmail.com>
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On Jun 26, 2007, at 11:33 AM, Matt White wrote:

Hello,

I am on a page that lists 78 items and can only show 25 per page, so there are links for each page of results and a "Next >" link. I'd like to get Mechanize to follow the Next link but the link looks like this:

<a class='searchlinks' href='javascript:lnkclick(2);'>Next ></a>

If I try to "click" the link, Mechanize raises an "unsupported scheme" exception. At this point I am using all sorts of fun regular expressions to parse the Javascript and send the appropriate values to the page with a WWW::Mechanize.post call. Is there an easier way? Thanks.



Not yet, I don't think.  Javascript support would be awesome, but it's a heafty beast to tackle.  The last time I needed to do javascript stuff, i basically ended up using a combination of regexps and lots of code tracing to make the same requests that the javascript would have made.  Charles is a handy tool for viewing the final request.
-Mat
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