[ptt-users] Problem with HTTPProtocol.connect(1)

[Frank Cohen]

My wife is recovering from throat surgery so I'm home bound the next  
few days. I may get some time to work on the redirect problem. I'll  
let you know. Thanks. -Frank


On Nov 21, 2006, at 3:04 PM, Aaron Romeo wrote:

> Thanks Geoff, I have something similar on…  However the site I’m  
> testing occasionally waits for external events (like credit card  
> approvals) before redirecting.  So I was hoping that TestMaker’s  
> redirects would handle some of this.
>
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Aaron.
>
>
>
> From: users-bounces at lists.pushtotest.com [mailto:users- 
> bounces at lists.pushtotest.com] On Behalf Of Geoff Meakin
> Sent: Tuesday, November 21, 2006 5:25 PM
> To: TestMaker users list; TestMaker users list
> Subject: RE: [ptt-users] Problem with HTTPProtocol.connect(1)
>
>
>
> I wrote a routine to handle some of our redirect problems. It may  
> or may not be of use to you... (see the base url checking in the  
> refreshcheck section)
>
>
>     def getPage( self, url, params=None ):
>         self.log(1,"Get  "+url+" with params="+str(params))
>         while url!='':
>            #print str(url)
>            if params==None:
>                resp=self.get(url)
>            else:
>                resp=self.get(url, params)
>            locationcheck=str(resp.getParameterValue('Location'))
>            if locationcheck==None or locationcheck=='None':
>
>                # Check for <META HTTP-EQUIV=Refresh CONTENT="0;  
> URL=home.do">
>
>                #self.log(1,"  urlcheck> "+str(resp))
>                refreshcheck=re.match('.*<META\ +HTTP-EQUIV=Refresh\  
> +CONTENT=.*URL=([^\"\']*)',str(resp),re.IGNORECASE)
>                if refreshcheck==None:
>                    url=''
>                else:
>                    #self.log(1,"  refreshcheck> "+str 
> (refreshcheck.group(0)))
>                    try:
>                        nurl=refreshcheck.group(1)
>                        nurl=nurl.lstrip().rstrip()
>                    except:
>                        nurl=''
>                    #self.log(1,"  ===> "+nurl)
>                    if re.match('^https?://',nurl,re.IGNORECASE):
>                        url=nurl
>                    else:
>                        if string.find(nurl,'/')==0:
>                            url=re.sub('^([^\.]*\.[^\/]*)\/.*','\ 
> \1',url)+nurl
>                        else:
>                            url=re.sub('/[^/]*$','/',url)+nurl
>                    self.log(2,"  ---> "+url)
>
>            else:
>                url=locationcheck
>                self.log(1,"  ---> "+locationcheck)
>         return resp
>
>
> Cheers
> -Geoff
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: users-bounces at lists.pushtotest.com on behalf of Aaron Romeo
> Sent: Tue 21/11/2006 20:02
> To: TestMaker users list
> Subject: RE: [ptt-users] Problem with HTTPProtocol.connect(1)
>
> OK Frank...
>
> Any idea how people have resolved this in the past?  Will I be  
> forced to
> have to handle the redirects manually?
>
> Thanks,
> Aaron.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: users-bounces at lists.pushtotest.com
> [mailto:users-bounces at lists.pushtotest.com] On Behalf Of Frank Cohen
> Sent: Tuesday, November 21, 2006 3:00 PM
> To: TestMaker users list
> Subject: Re: [ptt-users] Problem with HTTPProtocol.connect(1)
>
> Hi Aaron: I've taken a look at this in the past and found that the
> browsers handle redirects differently.
>
>
>
> On Nov 21, 2006, at 8:11 AM, Aaron Romeo wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > I have a problem with the HTTPProtocol.connect(1) function.
> >
> > The website I am testing uses a path to redirect.  For example, if
> > the base
> > URL is www.myurl.com, the first page might be www.myurl.com/
> > default.html.
> > On this page, I have another link that links me to second.html.
> > The browser
> > can identify that I am referring to www.myurl.com/second.html.
> > However
> > TestMaker doesn't contain my base and host URL anymore.  It has
> > also lost
> > the protocol.
> >
> > Can someone tell me how I can get around this?  I would really like
> > to have
> > TestMaker handle my redirects for me.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > --
> > Aaron Romeo
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