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From: Michael Fellinger on 20 May 2010 13:15
On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 1:14 AM, Phil Mcdonnell
<phil.a.mcdonnell(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> The other trick here is that this page is behind a login.  Mechanize
> allows me to fill out the login form and holds onto the login
> credentials for me.  Can harmony/celebrity/watir do this?

Watir definitely does that since it simply controls your browser and
therefore behaves exactly like one.

>>
>> The *really* interesting part is what does the Javascript do :-) with
>> (a potentially large) effort you may be able to "reverse-engineer" the
>> javascript and emulate manually in mechanize.  I.e. if the javascript
>> builds a simple HTTP request, you may be able to send the same request
>> from mechanize (possibly) without much effort.
>
> How would one do this?  I'm somewhat new to javascript as I usually
> don't do front end engineering.  I see the below definition of this
> function in the HTML page.  Any way I can sniff out what it's actually
> doing?  I'm looking to figure out what the fireClick method displays
From: David Wright on 20 May 2010 13:19
Mechanize cannot execute javascript but watir/celerity can. (I've never
used harmony)

#in watir (could also use firewatir and/or the safari equivalent)
require 'watir'
require 'watir/ie'

# should work identically with celerity
#require 'celerity
#@browser = Celerity::IE.new

@login_page = 'http://example.com/'

@browser = Watir::IE.new
@browser.goto @login_page
@browser.text_field(:name, 'username').set(@user)
@browser.text_field(:name, 'password').set(@pass)
@browser.button(:value, "LogIn").click

# go to page where the javascript link is
@broswer.link(:text, "Link Name").click

# click it
# this assumes the fireClick event is 'just' an ajax call which returns
content
@broswer.link(:id, "iroc_0").click
@browser.wait # wait for ajax to return

# show page's displaying text (not view source)
puts @browser.text
# if above fires a pop up window more code is needed to retrieve the
content
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From: Phil Mcdonnell on 24 May 2010 03:36
This is extremely helpful!

With Watir I'm running into a problem finding the image button for login
on the following page:
https://online.americanexpress.com/myca/logon/us/action?request_type=LogonHandler&Face=en_US&DestPage=https%3A%2F%2Fwww99.americanexpress.com%2Fmyca%2Facctsumm%2Fus%2Faction%3Frequest_type%3Dauthreg_acctAccountSummary%26us_nu%3Dlogincontrol

It looks like the login button is just a clickable image and I should be
able to find it via:
browser.button(:alt, "Login").click

Any idea why that doesn't find the button?

David Wright wrote:
> Mechanize cannot execute javascript but watir/celerity can. (I've never
> used harmony)
>
> #in watir (could also use firewatir and/or the safari equivalent)
> require 'watir'
> require 'watir/ie'
>
> # should work identically with celerity
> #require 'celerity
> #@browser = Celerity::IE.new
>
> @login_page = 'http://example.com/'
>
> @browser = Watir::IE.new
> @browser.goto @login_page
> @browser.text_field(:name, 'username').set(@user)
> @browser.text_field(:name, 'password').set(@pass)
> @browser.button(:value, "LogIn").click
>
> # go to page where the javascript link is
> @broswer.link(:text, "Link Name").click
>
> # click it
> # this assumes the fireClick event is 'just' an ajax call which returns
> content
> @broswer.link(:id, "iroc_0").click
> @browser.wait # wait for ajax to return
>
> # show page's displaying text (not view source)
> puts @browser.text
> # if above fires a pop up window more code is needed to retrieve the
> content

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From: brabuhr on 24 May 2010 10:32
On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 3:36 AM, Phil Mcdonnell
<phil.a.mcdonnell(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> With Watir I'm running into a problem finding the image button for login
> on the following page:
> https://online.americanexpress.com/myca/logon/us/action?request_type=LogonHandler&Face=en_US&DestPage=https%3A%2F%2Fwww99.americanexpress.com%2Fmyca%2Facctsumm%2Fus%2Faction%3Frequest_type%3Dauthreg_acctAccountSummary%26us_nu%3Dlogincontrol
>
> It looks like the login button is just a clickable image and I should be
> able to find it via:
> browser.button(:alt, "Login").click
>
> Any idea why that doesn't find the button?

Sorry, don't have time to look at the page right now, but if it "is
just a clickable image" and not an actual "button" watir's button
helper may not find it (even though it looks like a button) so try
browser.image().click?

From: Darryl Brown on 26 May 2010 15:44
On May 24, 10:32 am, brab...(a)gmail.com wrote:
> On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 3:36 AM, Phil Mcdonnell
>
> <phil.a.mcdonn...(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> > With Watir I'm running into a problem finding the image button for login
> > on the following page:
> >https://online.americanexpress.com/myca/logon/us/action?request_type=....
>
> > It looks like the login button is just a clickable image and I should be
> > able to find it via:
> > browser.button(:alt, "Login").click
>
> > Any idea why that doesn't find the button?
>
> Sorry, don't have time to look at the page right now, but if it "is
> just a clickable image" and not an actual "button" watir's button
> helper may not find it (even though it looks like a button) so try
> browser.image().click?

To click on this with Watir:
You can use:

@browser.button(:src, 'https://online.americanexpress.com/myca/logon/
us/shared/images/btn_login.gif').click


This was captured using the Webmetrics script recorder
http://www.webmetrics.com/products/script_recorder.html
It has a Watir compatible mode. You won't get a working
script out of it but it good for identifying objects.


Inspect Element using FireBug:

<input type="image" border="0" onclick="javascript:loginNow();return
false;" tabindex="5" style="margin-top: 5px; margin-left: 20px; margin-
bottom: 22px;" alt="Login" src="/myca/logon/us/shared/images/
btn_login.gif">


A nice helper tool for identify page object such as this Webmetrics

Good luck,
Darryl
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