revBrowser and htmltext of web pages

Fri Feb 15 13:38:57 EST 2008

Thanks Björnke. The page in question is on a secured site (realtors' 
multiple listing service), but I'll see if I can find an equivalent 
public page and submit that with the bug report.

Phil

Björnke von Gierke wrote:
> I'd say this looks like a bug to me, so maybe you should file one, 
> specifying the url, and how you used it.  Alternatively send this mail 
> and the url /use case to support?
>
>
> On 15 Feb 2008, at 07:33, Phil Davis wrote:
>
>> I'm looking at a web page in revBrowser (XP in Parallels) that contains
>> all the info I want to capture. When my script does this:
>>  put revBrowserGet(tId,"htmltext")
>>
>> All I get in the message box is this:
>> <HTML><HEAD></HEAD>
>> <BODY></BODY></HTML>
>>
>> I'm guessing it's because the page uses JavaScript heavily. But of
>> course it renders perfectly in revBrowser, so it seems like I should be
>> able to grab it. When I look at the same page with a non-Rev web
>> browser, I can see the page source and all the data I wanted is there.
>>
>> Can revBrowser give me the same results as a regular web browser? Am I
>> just missing something?
>>
>> Thanks -
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