Re: [Htmlunit-user] problem with frames

[Mike B. <mb...@Ga...>]

Vinay Murthy wrote:

> I used htmlunit to log onto a site having a couple of frames. To
> confirm that I am at the right page, I tried dumping
> (HtmlPage)page.asText() and I ended up with a message "Frames are
> required. Microsoft IE 3.0 or greater and Netscape 2.0 or greater
> support frames."
> 
> Can somebody help me around two issues please ?
> 1. asText() should return me the page as it is seen in the browser.
> This I presume is the html of the page. Can I be validated here ?

Right, although it appears that we haven't added specific handling for 
the noframe tag.

> 2. I believe I havent been able to successfully get to the page I
> needed because of the frames. Is there a way to get around this too ?

The content for the frames has most likely already been loaded.  You can 
call getEnclosedPage() on the HtmlFrame instance to get at the content 
inside that frame.

> P.S: for the benefit of the list, I did like to mention that, https
> connections fail on older versions of j2sdk 1.4

Interesting.  I'll have to remember that one.


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