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From: Chuck Hallenbeck <chuckh@ftml.net>
To: Chris Brannon <chris@the-brannons.com>
Cc: edbrowse-dev@lists.the-brannons.com
Subject: Re: [Edbrowse-dev] startpage
Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2014 19:04:53 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LNX.2.03.1402101904090.11184@ftml.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87iosmedam.fsf@mushroom.PK5001Z>

Can you use elinks for this purpose? Elinks works on startpage.

On Mon, 10 Feb 2014, Chris Brannon wrote:

> Karl Dahlke <eklhad@comcast.net> writes:
>
> > There is something else amiss about the way we submit that query.
>
> I get the same thing, even when JavaScript is disabled.
> My guess is that they're expecting some form field that we're not
> sending.  It's supposed to be filled in by JavaScript, and if we don't
> send it, they assume that we're using some kind of automation to access
> their site.  Automation usually isn't "smart" enough to run JavaScript.
> And our JS implementation is hitting a snag somewhere, failing to fill
> in that field.
> I'd try this in Chromium with ChromeVox, but I have no way to see what
> query the browser is sending to the server.  If this were a plain http
> connection, I'd dump the traffic to a file with tcpdump and extract what
> I need.  But it's https.  I'm looking into mitmproxy, which may help me
> to examine the traffic.
>
> -- Chris
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-- 

 Chuck in Ghent, northeast of Hudson on the Hudson.


  reply	other threads:[~2014-02-11  0:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-02-10 19:47 Karl Dahlke
2014-02-10 20:40 ` Chuck Hallenbeck
2014-02-10 23:52 ` Chris Brannon
2014-02-11  0:04   ` Chuck Hallenbeck [this message]
2014-02-11  0:29     ` Chris Brannon
2014-02-11  0:42       ` Chuck Hallenbeck
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2014-02-09 23:23 Karl Dahlke
2014-02-09 19:04 Karl Dahlke
2014-02-09 22:12 ` Chris Brannon
2014-02-09 17:35 Karl Dahlke
2014-02-09 18:29 ` Chris Brannon

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