I don't know about Firefox, but I meant to write about the headless Chrome CLI in the last newsletter. It's been around since v59/60.
https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2017/04/headless-chrome
On 8 September 2017 at 12:00, roundtable-request@muug.ca wrote:
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Today's Topics:
- Firefox remote control / or headless js? MozRepl gone... (Trevor Cordes)
- massive equifax hack (Trevor Cordes)
Message: 1 Date: Fri, 8 Sep 2017 00:24:43 -0500 From: Trevor Cordes trevor@tecnopolis.ca To: MUUG RndTbl roundtable@muug.ca Subject: [RndTbl] Firefox remote control / or headless js? MozRepl gone... Message-ID: 20170908052443.GA10410@pog.tecnopolis.ca Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
MozRepl, which I use to remotely control Firefox, is officially broken as of FF55 and the devs say it won't be fixed and can't really work in the future anyhow as FF ditches XPCOM. That means I can't use WWW::Mechanize::Firefox anymore (as demo'd (demoed? demod?...) in a MUUG meeting a couple of years back). (https://github.com/bard/mozrepl/issues/68#issuecomment-322212759)
So I'm left looking for alternatives... Anyone else know of / is using any good progrmamatic browser remote-controllers? Hopefully they'd support FF and Perl, but I could convert/find workarounds if it supported different browser/languages.
Also, beyond that, are there any good libraries /modules for interacting with web pages "headless", that is, having the dom and js handled all in memory without any actual browser or window showing?
I'd love to hear about personal experience / anecdotes, but just rattling off some names to research would be helpful too. Thanks!
Message: 2 Date: Fri, 8 Sep 2017 05:06:56 -0500 From: Trevor Cordes trevor@tecnopolis.ca To: MUUG RndTbl roundtable@muug.ca Subject: [RndTbl] massive equifax hack Message-ID: 20170908100656.GA3883@pog.tecnopolis.ca Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Equifax blew it and allowed SQL injection (that's soooo 2005) vulns to leak access to id/credit details of 143M Americans, as well as undisclosed number of Canadians and UK. This is pretty big news. No word yet on how Canadians can check their status or access the freebies they are handing out.
https://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/3016920/equifax- hack-exposes-personal-details-of-44-per-cent-of-us-citizens
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