Does anyone know of an http client that is scripting friendly (ie: the basics, gets, posts) and is capable of executing javascript (all, not just location redirect) ? And one which isn’t just launching another browser.
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Does anyone know of an http client that is scripting friendly (ie: the basics, gets, posts) and is capable of executing javascript (all, not just location redirect) ? And one which isn’t just launching another browser.
As far as I know there is no such thing available (although I’m keeping an eye on this thread hoping to be proved wrong).
However if your prepared to roll up your sleeves and do some work, then it should be possible to implement sucah a thing based on Firefox with a xul script – or you might consider looking at, for example, rhino – which is a javascript engine without a browser.
Elinks is a text-mode browser with javascript – so it would probably be simpler to run that in a pty compared with implementing your own browser component and exposing the DOM to rhino.