begin  quoting Bob La Quey as of Tue, Aug 28, 2007 at 12:37:08AM -0700:
> On 8/27/07, Stewart Stremler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> > What I really want to do is to rewrite all the javascript in a page.
> 
> I do not understand why this is a problem. Can one not
> simply download a page, including its Javascript, then
> write a program to do anything one might imagine with
> that page?

That was my intent, but I did not find a decent https proxy that had
the capability that I want (muffin works well, but it doesn't handle
https).  Greasemonkey lets me rewrite the page, but I have not yet
found any documentation about how to obtain the javascript used by
that page.

All the javascript rewrite examples that I've seen thus far are doing
only string-subtitution in tag attribute values. This is not useful.

> Yes, it is work. But is there any fundamental issue
> that prevents one doing this? I do not perceive any
> such issue.

Ideally, I could write my own browser and/or javascript engine, and
provide "no unmediated code" as a basic feature/requirement.

> Or are you simply saying, "This is work. I  do not
> want to do work."

If I didn't want to work, I would be a lazy SOB and just enable
Javascript, rather than trying to make the Web work in a sane and
reasonable manner.

(Re)writing a browser and Javascript engine is *too* much work.

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Remember that discussion we just had about "cleaning" user-input? It applies.
Stewart Stremler

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