3/ login form has two fields, yet if you send those two fields over, login fails. why? bc those are DUMMY fields.
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4/ you fill those in and client-side javascript fires off, validates the data, and then modifies the form to have two new HIDDEN fields
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5/ and then puts massaged version of your data into those hidden fields and THEN submits the form.
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6/ There's a really great simulation of a browser that does everything a browser does. It's called "a browser".
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7/ so I'm using the rails testing framwork 'capybara' and the selenium webdriver, which is a remote-control firefox instance.
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8/ ...and instead of pulling my hair out using the Charles proxy and trying to reverse engineer minified javascript, I can instead just
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9/ use very clean, human-level interfaces like "pretend you're a human and click this item". and it works
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ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted Eddie, Son of Richard
10/ "if it works and it's ugly, it's not ugly"https://twitter.com/random_eddie/status/887775684122247169 …
ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs added,
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11/ This is the first time I've written a nice hack for my own personal use. I mean, sure, I've written lots of small scripts, and >
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12/ thousands of lines of emacs lisp. But this is cooler. Really grooving on watching the browser auto-serf.
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the mistake was entirely Freudian, I assure you
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