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Re: Curl support for javascript

From: Dan Fandrich <dan_at_coneharvesters.com>
Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2010 10:30:46 -0800

On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 04:05:31PM +0100, Kamil Dudka wrote:
> On Tuesday 30 November 2010 14:49:56 Giuseppe Di Ciaula wrote:
> > It's possible for curl support javascript?
> >
> > In other way, it's possible for curl to visit web sites with
> > javascript pages in it?
>
> curl downloads you content of the web site. If there is HTML, JavaScript, or
> whatever, you'll just get it as text. curl does not process these languages
> in any way. That's job of your application.

It's theoretically possible for your app to process Javascript, but not
necessarily easy. See the FAQ:
http://curl.haxx.se/docs/faq.html#Does_curl_support_Javascript_or

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Received on 2010-11-30