This's a browser/server architecture, we have Crystal Report 8 used(10.2.10.7). One IE browser with URL "10.2.10.7/tcard/tempSchl.rpt?user0 at c.rpt=rpt_read&password0 at c.rpt=rpt_read&user1=rpt_read&password1=rpt_read&init=actx" on client launched and called Crystal Report Viewer, a new IE window would be opened.
How can we monitor this new IE window or content in this new IE window?
Any suggestions will be appreciated.
Thanks.
well, one thing you can try is running a perl script that make a request for the new page (some form of WWW::Mechanize mojo). After you get the page you can try scrape out the stuff you looking for and send statuses back to the hobbit server based on the information you got. At least that is a solution I would try, unless someone has more kung-fu then I do ;)
On 8/22/07, case <casedj at 21cn.com> wrote:
This's a browser/server architecture, we have Crystal Report 8 used( 10.2.10.7). One IE browser with URL " 10.2.10.7/tcard/tempSchl.rpt?user0 at c.rpt=rpt_read&password0 at c.rpt=rpt_read&user1=rpt_read&password1=rpt_read&init=actx" on client launched and called Crystal Report Viewer, a new IE window would be opened.
How can we monitor this new IE window or content in this new IE window?
Any suggestions will be appreciated.
Thanks.
On 8/22/07, Paul Ehrenreich <paulehr at gmail.com> wrote:
well, one thing you can try is running a perl script that make a request for the new page (some form of WWW::Mechanize mojo).
I haven't looked at the Mechanize, but another great perl module for automating HTTP QA is webtest:
http://search.cpan.org/~ilyam/HTTP-WebTest-2.04/lib/HTTP/WebTest.pm
Scott
On Wed, Aug 22, 2007 at 12:35:30PM +0800, case wrote:
This's a browser/server architecture, we have Crystal Report 8 used(10.2.10.7). One IE browser with URL "10.2.10.7/tcard/tempSchl.rpt?user0 at c.rpt=rpt_read&password0 at c.rpt=rpt_read&user1=rpt_read&password1=rpt_read&init=actx" on client launched and called Crystal Report Viewer, a new IE window would be opened.
How can we monitor this new IE window or content in this new IE window?
It's difficult. What I normally do in these cases is to use something like wireshark (ethereal) to trace the requests going to the server, and see if I can just grab one of the pages without going through the whole series of screens that the user does. If that is not possible, then the only way forward is to write a script to mimic the behaviour of your browser, which can be quite tricky to do - getting everything right with dynamic URL's, Javascript "onLoad()" functions, cookies etc. can be a lot of work.
It isn't something that Hobbit can do automatically.
Regards, Henrik
On 8/23/07, Henrik Stoerner <henrik at hswn.dk> wrote:
On Wed, Aug 22, 2007 at 12:35:30PM +0800, case wrote:
This's a browser/server architecture, we have Crystal Report 8 used(10.2.10.7). One IE browser with URL "10.2.10.7/tcard/tempSchl.rpt?user0 at c.rpt=rpt_read&password0 at c.rpt=rpt_read&user1=rpt_read&password1=rpt_read&init=actx" on client launched and called Crystal Report Viewer, a new IE window would be opened.
How can we monitor this new IE window or content in this new IE window?
It's difficult. What I normally do in these cases is to use something like wireshark (ethereal) to trace the requests going to the server, and see if I can just grab one of the pages without going through the whole series of screens that the user does. If that is not possible, then the only way forward is to write a script to mimic the behaviour of your browser, which can be quite tricky to do - getting everything right with dynamic URL's, Javascript "onLoad()" functions, cookies etc. can be a lot of work.
There are a couple of tools that can help:
LiveHTTPHeaders plugin for Firefox shows you exactly what headers flow between the browser and the server;
curl is pretty good at grabbing web pages. It has a library and extensions for using it within Perl, PHP, tcl, C, etc, as well as the command line version for use in shell scripts.
Ralph Mitchell
Hi Ralph and Henrik,
Thanks for help.
Case ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ralph Mitchell" <ralphmitchell at gmail.com> To: <hobbit at hswn.dk> Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2007 10:14 PM Subject: Re: [hobbit] About Web monitor
On 8/23/07, Henrik Stoerner <henrik at hswn.dk> wrote:
On Wed, Aug 22, 2007 at 12:35:30PM +0800, case wrote:
This's a browser/server architecture, we have Crystal Report 8 used(10.2.10.7). One IE browser with URL "10.2.10.7/tcard/tempSchl.rpt?user0 at c.rpt=rpt_read&password0 at c.rpt=rpt_read&user1=rpt_read&password1=rpt_read&init=actx" on client launched and called Crystal Report Viewer, a new IE window would be opened.
How can we monitor this new IE window or content in this new IE window?
It's difficult. What I normally do in these cases is to use something like wireshark (ethereal) to trace the requests going to the server, and see if I can just grab one of the pages without going through the whole series of screens that the user does. If that is not possible, then the only way forward is to write a script to mimic the behaviour of your browser, which can be quite tricky to do - getting everything right with dynamic URL's, Javascript "onLoad()" functions, cookies etc. can be a lot of work.
There are a couple of tools that can help:
LiveHTTPHeaders plugin for Firefox shows you exactly what headers flow between the browser and the server;
curl is pretty good at grabbing web pages. It has a library and extensions for using it within Perl, PHP, tcl, C, etc, as well as the command line version for use in shell scripts.
Ralph Mitchell
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