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Re: Enable javascript with curl

From: bruce <badouglas_at_gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 4 May 2016 16:20:11 -0400

If I recall, the firefox copy as curl is an addon/extension.. Don't recall
it being a part of the firefox browser..

I could be wrong!!

On Wed, May 4, 2016 at 1:51 PM, Ray Satiro via curl-users <
curl-users_at_cool.haxx.se> wrote:

> On 5/4/2016 4:56 AM, Sourin Maiti wrote:
>
>> What option to choose to get the real contect of a page in curl? I get
>> below in return:
>>
>> <noscript>You have to enable javascript in your browser to use an
>> application built with Vaadin.</noscript>.
>>
>> Note: I am able to see same message in view source as well.
>>
>> I tried to get the cookie from website then used that cookie to get the
>> content but still getting same response. I do not have root access to the
>> server so I am not able to install lynx or w3m.
>>
>
> In your case it may be easier to automate using javascript or imacros or
> something as already mentioned. I would e-mail Vaadin and ask them what's
> possible, they may have an API you can use for this. You can also try
> monitoring in your browser to see the form as it's sent. Chrome and Firefox
> have a 'copy as curl' command so that once you find the right POST you can
> get the command needed to emulate it in curl [1]. You may need more than
> one command if a login is required each time to get a valid cookie. If that
> doesn't work you can try a web debugging proxy like Fiddler and then
> assemble the commands yourself, which is more work.
>
> I don't know why you'd install lynx or w3m.
>
>
> [1]: https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2015/11/23/copy-as-curl/
>
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Received on 2016-05-04