[Cialug] Interesting problem [OT?]

[Stuart Thiessen]

Oh, ok. I haven't used these tools before, so I wasn't sure where the  
connection was. Thanks for explaining. :)

Stuart

On Nov 14, 2008, at 18:06 , Tony Bibbs wrote:

> A lot of the UI test tools automate doing things in the browser.  I  
> was suggesting that it or something like it (Bad Boy + Jmeter) might  
> be able to do what you want.
>
> --Tony
>
> On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 5:56 PM, Stuart Thiessen <thiessenstuart at aol.com 
> > wrote:
> The img tag shows (for example) <img src="http://www.signbank.org/swis/glyph.php?code=45568 
> ">.  The glph script returns the appropriate image file for that  
> code number. I have the dump of the html, but it is these <img> tags  
> that are blocking me from having a complete offline copy. That was  
> why I was also thinking of trying to automate some kind of PDF dump  
> of each page.
>
> Tony, I did look at the Selenium website, but I am not sure how it  
> will help with this task. Could you explain?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Stuart
>
> On Nov 14, 2008, at 17:36 , Matthew Nuzum wrote:
>
> On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 5:20 PM, Stuart Thiessen <thiessenstuart at aol.com 
> > wrote:
> Anyway, my technical challenge is that the organization developing  
> this
> writing system has published a PHP database of the symbols at:
> http://www.signbank.org/swis/data.php?subset=&bs_code=*
>
> I need to get a offline dump of each of the basesymbol child pages  
> listed on
> that page. I can't do a simple download of the page as HTML because  
> the
> image file showing the symbol is actually a link to a script that  
> finds the
> right symbol and plugs it in, so when I use programs like wget, a  
> broken
> link for the symbol image appears when I try to look at it offline.
>
> Does wget download the symbols and give them a funny name like
> glyph.php?code=368.html or glyph.php?code=368.png?
>
> I don't see anything sneaky on that page that would prevent you from
> using an automated tool, my guess is that the names are getting
> mangled.  If so, view the source of your downloaded page and see what
> the filename is that it's expecting and how it differs from what was
> actually generated. If they don't differ and the problem is really
> that the name is illegal for the filesystem then you may be able to
> just use a script to rename the images and the paths to the images in
> the html files.
>
> I've run into this problem before and just tried a different
> downloader program. It's been a while since I've used one so I can't
> think of one to suggest at the moment.
>
> -- 
> Matthew Nuzum
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