[plt-scheme] Has anyone written an automated web browser?

On 6 Oct 2009, at 17:59, N N wrote:

> I suspect the answer is no, given what I've seen (as I understand it  
> Delirium, for instance, only runs against the Scheme web server).   
> We would like something that allows us to browse the web controlled  
> by coded logic instead of a human.  If it already exists, great, if  
> not, I guess we'll have to write it.
>
> ~NoT

Just a clarification regarding Delirium:

Your Delirium test suites have to run on the PLT web server. However,  
there's nothing except XSS restrictions to prevent you testing any old  
web application using Delirium.

I believe Selenium gets around XSS in one of two ways:
   1. deploy Selenium from the same server as the target web app;
   2. use a URl rewriting proxy that makes the browser thing the test  
server and the app server are one and the same.

Delirium obviously uses technique #1 by default. Noel and I tried  
writing a proxy for Delirium but it was more complicated than we  
anticipated so we gave up in the end. It might be possible to use  
Selenium's proxy with Delirium, but I haven't looked.

In summary, though, Delirium and Selenium are basically the same  
technology. Delirium just lets you write your tests using Schemeunit.

-- Dave