[ale] CLI way to interact with JavaScript URL?

[William Witt]

On Tuesday 02 December 2008 18:49:25 Jeff Lightner wrote:
> OK it's been about 3 years since I last looked into this.   Back then
> the answer seemed to be there wasn't a way to do it with tools like
> lynx, curl and wget or any other CLI browser.
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> Is there a way to do it now?
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> Lynx doesn't connect at all and most of my reading says it won't do
> JavaScript.   Wget will connect but then goes nowhere.
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> Basically I'd like to at least get the information presented by the URL
> (it's an Oracle Login page).
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> Even better would be if there were a tool that would let me interact and
> actually login to validate the page is working properly.   (Similar to
> the way expect would let me do a login on a telnet session via script.)
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> Does anyone have any ideas?
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> What I'm trying to achieve is monitoring to insure the page is working
> and if not then notify the appropriate people to look into it.
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links (http://links.twibright.com/) says it will do a little bit of javascript 
(I haven't tried it though)

Will