Programmatically Pressing Buttons on a Web Page
Question
There is a webpage on our intranet which resides at http://server1/rsyncwebgui.php which provides a quick way for us to trigger an rSync between two file shares. For uninteresting security reasons, this is the route we have to take.
The web page looks like this:
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=utf-8">
<title>Rsync web gui</title>
</head>
<body>
<script language="javascript">
window.onload = function () { setTimeout(submitForm, 10000); }
function submitForm() { document.getElementById('myform').submit(); }
</script>
<h3> Execute rsync between server2 and server3</h3>
<form id="myform" method="POST">
<input type="hidden" name="resync" value="false">
<input type="hidden" name="scanscheduled" value="false">
<input type="submit" value="Start sync">
</form>
<p>
<script language="javascript">
window.onload = function () {
if (confirm('Are you sure to start the sync?')) {
var formobj = document.getElementById('myform');
formobj.elements['resync'].value = 'true';
formobj.submit();
}
}
</script>
</p>
<p><a href="/rsyncwebgui.php">Refresh page</a></p>
</body></html>
When a user clicks on the button, an "OK/Cancel" dialog pops up asking them to confirm. When OK is clicked, the page posts back and the rsync is triggered.
How would I drive this interaction from a remote, C# console application?
3 answers
solution1
4 ACCPTED 2012-06-01 08:40:54
Can't check in VS now, but you will end with something like this :
string postDataStr = string.Format("resync=true&scanscheduled=&otherpara=xyz");
byte[] postData = Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes(postDataStr);
HttpWebRequest req = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create(new Uri("http://server1/rsyncwebgui.php"));
req.Method= "POST";
req.ContentType = "application/x-www-form-urlencoded";
req.ContentLength = postData.Length;
using(var reqStream = req.GetRequestStream())
{
reqStream.Write(postData, 0, postData.Length);
}
HttpWebResponse response = (HttpWebResponse )req.GetResponse();
solution2
0 2012-06-01 08:47:59
solution3
0 2012-06-06 12:37:22
+1 for WatiN or Selenium which HiTech Magic called out. You could also give Telerik's free testing framework a try. (Disclosure: I'm the evangelist for Test Studio, so I'm a bit biased...)
You could also use Watir, which would let you create a simple Ruby script to invoke from the command line. I use Ruby and Watir for all sorts of similar situations like this.
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