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I have run into a problem while trying to test a web application with HtmlUnit. Please bear in mind that I haven't used HtmlUnit very long so I might be missing something trivial.

For some reason externally referenced javascripts aren't being loaded. When I print the page as xml all i get is this:

<script language="javascript" src="urltofile.js">  
</script>  

As you can see the script tag is empty when it should contain the javascript. What am I missing? I have googled for a solution all morning but haven't found any relevant information. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

+1  A: 

That tag loads an external file: "urltofile.js", so it's not strange to have nothing into because the js code is loaded from that file and not injected into the existing markup.

mamoo
Ah, I see. Any shot-in-the-dark ideas on how I can inject the script into the existing code?
nici
+1  A: 

After many many hours of googling I found the solution to be very simple. All I had to do was to wait a few seconds after the page is retrieved to allow the javascript some time to execute before doing anything else. I can honestly say finding the solution was a bit of an anticlimax, but at least I can move along to more important stuff now. :)

nici
You generally want to do stuff on document ready or window onload, just to be sure. Also I think it is generally considered good hygene to include type="text/javascript" to a script tag.
Gabriel