Remote control of firefox through Haskell?

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Remote control of firefox through Haskell?

by Jefferson Heard-2 :: Rate this Message:

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Is there a library out there that will allow me to remote-control the
firefox or mozilla browsers, e.g. change the current page, open a new
tab?

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Re: Remote control of firefox through Haskell?

by Rahul Kapoor :: Rate this Message:

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Selenium (http://selenium.openqa.org/) might do what you want.
The bindings were announced on this list a little while ago
(http://tinyurl.com/se-bindings)

On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 3:12 PM, Jefferson Heard
<jefferson.r.heard@...> wrote:

> Is there a library out there that will allow me to remote-control the
> firefox or mozilla browsers, e.g. change the current page, open a new
> tab?
>
> --
> I try to take things like a crow; war and chaos don't always ruin a
> picnic, they just mean you have to be careful what you swallow.
>
> -- Jessica Edwards
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Re: Remote control of firefox through Haskell?

by Don Stewart-2 :: Rate this Message:

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jefferson.r.heard:
> Is there a library out there that will allow me to remote-control the
> firefox or mozilla browsers, e.g. change the current page, open a new
> tab?

Yeah, use the haskell selenium bindings, on hackage.haskell.org

--- Don
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Re: Remote control of firefox through Haskell?

by Jefferson Heard-2 :: Rate this Message:

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Thanks, Rahul, Don.  These work...
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