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Asked: 2026-06-07T22:36:05+00:00

For weeks I am trying to automate a browsing task. The task is simple:

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For weeks I am trying to automate a browsing task.
The task is simple: login, click links, enter variable and submit, logout.
I need to create a website that does this (Sort of a simpler interface) Bare in mind the website is using Servlets and I do not have access to website codes.
At first I tried CURL, but since there were some Ajax Elements in the page curl was not able to show that content.
I tried .NET Webdriver, JUnit, Selenium, etc. But All have failed on rendering ajax elements.
I’ve tried perl and python mechanize, while perl did not work, I was able to get the dynamic content with python.
The problem is not that I have links that are Javascript executions they start with Javascript: and I don’t think I can call functions with Mechanize.
Does anybody know if this task is even possible?

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  1. Editorial Team

    The Perl module WWW::Mechanize is the most popular way of automating web-browsing tasks like, downloads, uploads, form submissions, authentication, simple browsing, screen scraping etc. etc.

    In case the website contains Javascript, the popular Perl module to handle them is to use WWW::Mechanize::Firefox.

    So far, “almost” any kind of website including technologies like JavaScript, and Ajax and using SSL security, and or access via proxy server can be handled by a combination of Perl module methods belonging to LWP::UserAgent and WWW::Mechanize or WWW::Mechanize::Firefox. Loads of example available over the web.

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