Re: [HtmlUnit] Simulating Browser Refresh Button

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

Mik...@su... wrote:
 > I have a need to simulate the browser refresh button.  I.e. I want to
 > reload a page.  I don't see a direct way to do this in HtmlUnit 1.1. 
  > Is there something that I am not seeing?

No, you aren't overlooking anything.  There is no direct support for 
simulating the refresh button.

 > Assuming there is not, one simple way to partially solve
 > the problem is to add the following function to HtmlPage:

Take a look at page.getWebResponse().getUrl() and see if that does what 
you need (for GET requests anyway).

 > However, this will only work for pages that are a result of a HTTP Get
 > requests. It will work for pages that were a result of a Post request,
 > because the URL will not contain the request parameters.

Right, the WebResponse doesn't currently retain the request parameters 
which is what you'd need for a proper refresh.

At a minimum the WebResponse would have to change to retain the 
parameters that were originally used and the request type 
(GET/POST/etc).  Then Page could additionally have a reload() method (I 
want to avoid the word "refresh" as that implies updating the current 
object and I'd want to return a new one).

Would this do everything you need?

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