[RndTbl] Roundtable Digest, Vol 153, Issue 3

[Kat]

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 at muug.ca> wrote:

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>    1. Firefox remote control / or headless js? MozRepl gone...
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> Date: Fri, 8 Sep 2017 00:24:43 -0500
> From: Trevor Cordes <trevor at tecnopolis.ca>
> To: MUUG RndTbl <roundtable at muug.ca>
> Subject: [RndTbl] Firefox remote control / or headless js? MozRepl
>         gone...
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> 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)
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> 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.
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> 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?
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> I'd love to hear about personal experience / anecdotes, but just rattling
> off some names to research would be helpful too.  Thanks!
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> Date: Fri, 8 Sep 2017 05:06:56 -0500
> From: Trevor Cordes <trevor at tecnopolis.ca>
> To: MUUG RndTbl <roundtable at muug.ca>
> Subject: [RndTbl] massive equifax hack
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> 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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Katherine Scrupa
Network Technology CCNA, Hons.
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