cURL and Javascript

I am trying to automate a login to a site which uses Javascript popups for its login. Apparently I cannot do so using cURL. Is this really the case? Can cURL communicate with Javascript? Or is not doable?

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asked Jan 30 '10 at 09:55

Paolo 1
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edited Jan 31 '10 at 23:42

radamanthus
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The site login will most likely still use HTTP POST to send the user credentials to the server even if the entry method is a Javascript popup. My suggestion would be to either use a packet sniffer like Wireshark or reverse engineer the script to determine the login server and parameters sent so that you could setup cURL to login.

From there, you could parse the body or get the cookies from the response to check if the login was successful.

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answered Jan 30 '10 at 13:28

Bryan Bibat
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3	Why not use Selenium Remote Control? You can automate it using your favorite language: Java, Ruby, Python, and possibly others. link answered Jan 31 '10 at 23:44 radamanthus 1.1k●1●10

3	Somewhat like datenshi's suggestion you could install firebug and look at the request headers etc at the Net tab of the firebug console. link answered Feb 01 '10 at 06:05 AnGoL 1.3k●3●18

0	THanks guys! I'll try your suggestions link answered Feb 01 '10 at 07:24 user-37 (google) 41●2 For responses like these, avoid posting them as answers, but as comments instead. (Feb 01 '10 at 12:45) Nikki Erwin Ramirez ♦♦

0	I used firebug to trace the headers and post data and it worked! Thanks again. link answered Feb 01 '10 at 08:45 user-37 (google) 41●2 For responses like these, avoid posting them as answers, but as comments instead. (Feb 01 '10 at 12:45) Nikki Erwin Ramirez ♦♦

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