The problem with save as dialogs is that they are a part of the operating system, not the browser. What you can do is set the browser profile to not check with the os when downloading.
Using profiles with watir - http://watirwebdriver.com/firefox/ http://watirwebdriver.com/chrome/ Titus On Jan 5, 2015 2:53 AM, "Dan Sharp" <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi! > > I'm new to Watir... working on a script to automate some browser screen > scraping. > > One page in particular has this problem that I'm stuck on: the page has a > link that is a javascript link, and the result of the javascript is that it > generates/sends a PDF to be downloaded/saved. So when I use Watir to click > the link, I get the Save As dialog, but I have no idea how to make it > actually click the "OK" button in the Save As dialog. It's not a javascript > window, so the usual javascript dialog/alert methods don't work. Also, as > the link is not a direct link to the PDF, I can't right-click on it to save > it without the dialog. > > I tried looking through the source to see if the URL was just hidden, but > it's not... it appears to be generated via some convoluted javascript. > > So I'm stuck. I can manually click the link and get the Save As dialog and > manually click the "OK" button (I'm on a mac, using Firefox, if the > matters). But I can't automate it. > > Any help? > > Thanks! > > -Dan > > -- > -- > Before posting, please read http://watir.com/support. In short: search > before you ask, be nice. > > [email protected] > http://groups.google.com/group/watir-general > [email protected] > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Watir General" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- -- Before posting, please read http://watir.com/support. In short: search before you ask, be nice. [email protected] http://groups.google.com/group/watir-general [email protected] --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Watir General" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
