Bug #15435 for Win32-IE-Mechanize: _wait_while_busy does not do what you would like it to do

Mon Oct 31 18:34:05 2005 Guest - Ticket created

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_wait_while_busy does not do what you would like it to do

Contrary to Microsoft documentation, IE's readystate DOES NOT accurately reflect the state of the browser regarding page load completion. It fails frequently and for a variety of reasons. Samie (http://samie.sourceforge.net/) that checks the event stream to insure that all the loads are complete. This will work most of the time (but not always). In principal there is NO bulletproff technique independent of the application using Mech, however, it is possible to use the Samie technique coupled with a brief timeout waiting for any new events. I'm willing to help if you would like.

Sun Nov 13 06:17:40 2005 abeltje [...] cpan.org - Taken

Sun Nov 13 06:23:58 2005 abeltje [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added

[guest - Mon Oct 31 18:34:05 2005]: Show quoted text

> Contrary to Microsoft documentation, IE's readystate DOES NOT > accurately reflect the state of the browser regarding page load > completion. It fails frequently and for a variety of reasons. > Samie (http://samie.sourceforge.net/) that checks the event stream > to insure that all the loads are complete. This will work most of > the time (but not always). In principal there is NO bulletproff > technique independent of the application using Mech, however, it is > possible to use the Samie technique coupled with a brief timeout > waiting for any new events.

I have reimplemented the _wait_while_busy() logic to use BrowserEvents and put a development snapshot up on CPAN (0.009_17). Show quoted text

> I'm willing to help if you would like.

Please do! Testing that snapshot is a start and I'll consider any patch. Please let me know, so we can do more work on it or I close this ticket. HTH + Good luck, -- Abe.

Sun Nov 13 06:23:59 2005 abeltje [...] cpan.org - Status changed from 'new' to 'open'