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Browser simulation - Python

Hi folks, I need to access a few HTML pages through a Python script, problem is that I need COOKIE functionality, therefore a simple urllib HTTP request won't work. Any ideas? ...

How can I detect if the browser has encountered a JavaScript error ... in JavaScript?

For automated testing reasons I want to detect if the browser has encountered JavaScript errors for a page. The type of things that would cause the red numbers in the bottom right in Firebug or yellow warning icon in the Internet Explorer status bar. These JS errors could come from any one of a large numbers of scripts. How in JavaScrip...

End user browser and OS configuration

Sometimes in case of a bug in our code, we usually ask the end user to provide the browser configuration and OS configuration to isolate the issue. How can we get this information in case of a problem while the end users are accessing a web application. ...

Detect browser focus/out-of-focus via Google Chrome Extension

Is there a way to find out if Google chrome is in focus or out of focus? I'm creating an app which needs to know if the user is currently using the browser or not. By tying the detection through the content script in a Google extension, I've tried using blur and focus but the problem is that clicking on the address bar also fires a blu...

How are cookies sent to a website

After you enter your name and password on a website, a cookie is stored on your computer. Your computer then sends information from that cookie to the website whenever you browse to another page on that site so that the site knows who you are. How is information from the cookie sent? Does the browser append information from within the...

JavaScript to detect if the parent frame is of the same origin?

I'm looking for a cross-browser way to detect whether the parent frame is the same origin as my frame, preferably without printing warnings on the JavaScript error console. The following seems to work but I'd like to avoid printing errors to the console (at least Safari and Chrome do when accessing location.href on the parent frame. Fir...

How to clear browser's cache from server side?

I have to create a web application that deals with user's sensitive information. I need to immediately clear the browser's cache after user logs out since cached data would be vulnerable. Client's browser should be enforced to clear the Cache from server side. Also all cache policies must be exposed to the client from the server side. I...

Android read browser history

I want to read browser history in Android phone. I have done some document reading, then I come to know that we can read browser history by android.provider.Browser class. It has : final static Cursor getAllVisitedUrls(ContentResolver cr) ...method which returns Cursor. May I get help to handle Cursor, or any example code to get br...

How do you do HTML form testing without real user input simulation ?

this question is like this one, except it's for PHP testing via browser. It's about testing your form input. Right now, i have a form on a single page. It has 12 input boxes. Every time i test the form, i have write those 12 input boxes in my browser. i know it's not a specific coding question. This question is more about how to do di...

How can I test my browser ignoring Location headers?

I want to test a site with my Firefox ignoring Location: headers like this example in PHP. header('Location: another-page.php'); Is there a plugin available to do this, or any other method? Would my best bet be surfing the site with Lynx? Does Lynx ignore them? Thanks ...

Exit browser full screen mode when F11 is hit while Flash object is active?

Hey, I have a 100% width and height flash object in my site. Activating and exiting browser full screen mode with F11 only works as long the user didn't click the Flash movie. And I doubt many users know they have to click the address bar to enable F11 after using a (browser) full screen Flash movie. Is there any way I can enable F11 t...

IE backbutton works just once (as if browser history has just one entry)

Hi, I'm trying to fix a browser history issue. A customer of ours has a ASP.Net intranet page running for a while now. A colleague made it. Recently they asked to fix the "Backbutton" we made on their page (the application). It looks at the sitemap and when clicked loads the parent page. But in some situations I have to use "javascript:...

URL routing in an MVC framework - PHP

I'm developing an MVC framework in PHP from scratch; mostly for the learning experience but this could easily end up in a live project. I went through this tutorial as a base and I've expanded from there. Requests are made like this: examplesite.com/controller/action/param1/param2/ and so on... And this is my .htaccess file: RewriteE...

In what situations does Flash / SWF misbehave in different browsers?

Hi, Recently I had some issues with Flash in IE, involving a SWF which is something like a gallery. In Firefox its loads perfectly, but in IE it doesn't work properly sometimes. The first time it is loaded its works fine but when I refresh all the images are blank. The image data came from XML. I wish to get some tips regarding the...

Model state inferno - how can Model.A be two different things at the same time?

I have this <%=Model.StartDate%> <%=Html.Hidden("StartDate", Model.StartDate)%> it outputs: 2010-05-11 11:00:00 +01:00 <input type="hidden" value="2010-03-17 11:00:00 +01:00" name="StartDate" id="StartDate"> What the... It's a paging mechanism so the hidden value was valid on the first page and I've been able to move for...

How to best launch C++ application from web page

I guess there are two parts to this question, one technical and one best practice for security and doing things "right". I'm working on a little game using C++ / directx but I would like to be able to launch it from a web page by someone clicking on a link on that page. Ideally I would like the first time they clicked for it to launch ...

Change Browser settings by script

Hi Folks, Afaik, you can change/manipulate browser settings in Mozilla/Netscape browsers. For Instance "netscape.security.PrivilegeManager.enablePrivilege('someprivilege');" Of course the user gets informed about that and needs to verify the action. My question is, do other browser have similar functionality? IE, Safari/Chrome ? Kind...

Android Browser FTP URL

I didn't post this but I have the same question as the person who did. I have a file stored on an ftp the URL to it is like this: "ftp://something.etc.etc" It seems that the android browser is unable to handle such links. You receive an error when trying to download the file from my link. Is there a way to download files from an ftp ur...

How to add listener to eclise internal browser - org.eclipse.ui.IWebBrowser to get event for 'page load' operation complete?

Hi All, I need to open an internal web browser from a custom eclipse wizard I have created - and so I am using IWebBrowser webBrowser = browser.createBrowser (IWorkbenchBrowserSupport.LOCATION_BAR | IWorkbenchBrowserSupport.AS_EDITOR | IWorkbenchBrowserSupport.NAVIGATION_BAR | IWorkbenchBrowserSupport.STATUS, null,"TestBrowser", "Tes...

3D visualization in browser

Hello, I am looking for solutions for 3D visualizations in web browsers. For now I just need to do research about this topic, i.e. I need to know how many solutions exist and which of these are good and why? Thanks ...