Re: HTTPAPI POST How to click the Next button

On Thu, Apr 11, 2019 at 12:15 AM Don Brown <DBrown@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I remember reading somewhere, possibly a document by Scott Klemment that
HTTPAPI could imitate a person using a browser ... whish I could find that
document.

There are different levels of imitation. It sounds like this site
won't be amenable to the level at which HTTPAPI operates.

You can always move to a level that is closer to mechanical robot and
further from pure programmatic interface. I'm talking about software
which emulates mouse movement, clicks, keystrokes, and so forth. Such
software also typically comes with some facility for image matching,
so that it can also emulate the way a person "sees" the site (i.e.
pixels and shapes rather than code).

The most sophisticated of these that I'm aware of are Sikuli and Kantu.

I haven't used them myself, but many people have, and they are
definitely worth looking into. For the kinds of things that those two
tools are used for, I personally use AutoHotkey, which is a bit more
DIY but fundamentally operates at a similar level.

Somewhere between HTTPAPI and Sikuli are things like Selenium.

Other than HTTPAPI, all of the things I've mentioned do not run on IBM
i but rather your own local desktop.

John Y.