Mimic a web surfer ?

Tue Apr 1 14:46:43 EST 2003

On 2003-04-01, shagshag13 <shagshag13 at yahoo.fr> wrote:
> i would like to develop a script which will mimic a web surfer,
> that is :
> 
> - follow links as a human and thus always come from previous page
> (i think there is something to do with http 'referer' and cookies)
> - be able to log if necessary
> 
> is there anything already existing ? i'm looking for any tips
> which will help me to start...

Take a look at http://sourceforge.net/projects/webunit/. It looks
much more complex than http://tclwebtest.sourceforge.net/. The
latter, however, is written in TCL. You could wrap it around under
python, but it's style would feel obscene.

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