[Htmlunit-user] htmlunit and PdfObject

[David M. G. <mic...@gm...>]

Hi all,

I have the following challenging question :-)
The following url

http://www.unioviedo.es/reunido/index.php/EBL/article/view/9962/9779

embeds a pdf with the javascript library pdfobject
http://pdfobject.com/

If it would be an ordinary frame, i could just have detected that the frame
contains an unexpectedpage with the type pdf and could have fetched the pdf
with pdfbox.

I have the following code:

package test;

import java.io.IOException;
import java.net.MalformedURLException;

import com.gargoylesoftware.htmlunit.BrowserVersion;
import com.gargoylesoftware.htmlunit.FailingHttpStatusCodeException;
import com.gargoylesoftware.htmlunit.ImmediateRefreshHandler;
import com.gargoylesoftware.htmlunit.WebClient;
import com.gargoylesoftware.htmlunit.html.HtmlPage;

public class PdfObject {

    public static void main(String[] args) throws
FailingHttpStatusCodeException, MalformedURLException, IOException {
        // TODO Auto-generated method stub
        String url = "
http://www.unioviedo.es/reunido/index.php/EBL/article/view/9962/9779";
        WebClient client = new WebClient(BrowserVersion.FIREFOX_24);
        client.setRefreshHandler(new ImmediateRefreshHandler());
        final HtmlPage page = client.getPage(url);
        client.waitForBackgroundJavaScriptStartingBefore(5000);
        System.out.println(page.asXml());
    }

}

As we can see the pdf object is not initialized.

Maybe this is because of the implementation of the javascript function in
htmlunit
This function is used by pdfobject
//Detects unbranded PDF support
    var hasGeneric = function (){
        var plugin = navigator.mimeTypes["application/pdf"];
        return (plugin && plugin.enabledPlugin);
    };
If this is false the javascript is not initialized.

How can i cause pdfobject to work with htmlunit?

Thanks,
David