Handling Ajax (was Re: No downloading)

2008-06-29 Thread Paul King 
I just want to de-lurk for a minute. I have been using wget on a regular basis 
for various websites. 

If Javascript is responsible for writing the content, then you have a web page 
that probably uses AJAX, and would be dyanmically updateable. Since Ajax use is 
on the rise, I wonder if anyone here can say how does wget deal with sites 
using Ajax?

Paul King

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 Petr Pisar wrote:
  On 2008-06-29, Mishari Almishari [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  Hi,
  I want to download the website
  www.2006election.nethttp://www.2006election.net.out/
  
 
  But the downloaded page index.html has no content (except body/head
 tags),
  eventhough i can see the content when i used internet exprolorer.
 
  This is not bug, that's feature. All the content you see in IE is
  generated by JavaScript. See source code of the web page in IE.
 
 No, the command he gives literally yields a completely empty web page:
 
 html
 body
 /body
 /html
 
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Re: Handling Ajax (was Re: No downloading)

2008-06-29 Thread Micah Cowan 
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Paul King wrote:
 I just want to de-lurk for a minute. I have been using wget on a regular 
 basis 
 for various websites. 
 
 If Javascript is responsible for writing the content, then you have a web 
 page 
 that probably uses AJAX, and would be dyanmically updateable. Since Ajax use 
 is 
 on the rise, I wonder if anyone here can say how does wget deal with sites 
 using Ajax?

Not so well, generally speaking. Wget isn't going to do any
JavaScript-interpreting on it's own, so it really depends. If the
JavaScript was written in certain ways, it's possible it will just
magically work when you fire it up in your browser. It's not unlikely
that it fails miserably. :\

Ultimately, I think it depends on the site.

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Micah J. Cowan
Programmer, musician, typesetting enthusiast, gamer,
and GNU Wget Project Maintainer.
http://micah.cowan.name/
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