[Nottingham] How to capture text from a Javascript generated web browser panel display?

[Paul]

The only way you might try is to workout the ajax call the retrieves the 
data. But you going to need to do it in a new tab as I am guessing there 
using Session ID's for identification and security.

It could start something like " $.post('<file name>',







On 16/02/15 11:53, Martin wrote:
> On 16/02/15 11:40, Paul wrote:
>> Would I be right to assume that you cant get the data from a view page
>> source ?
> Unfortunately not. I see the web page html for the panels, and then
> there is a whole load of references to javascript, ".js", "javax"...
>
> Similarly so for inspecting any elements...
>
> :-(
>
>
> I'm guessing their programming outputs direct to the display...
>
> And they only allow you to view a few lines of ticket at a time!!!
>
> Scrolling down for the next few lines takes a few seconds each time as
> the display panel is redrawn at each page-down click...
>
> Cheers,
> Martin
>
>
>
>> On 16/02/15 11:30, Martin wrote:
>> Folks,
>>
>> I'm fighting a hopelessly unwieldy web browser based "ticketing
>> system" from a sub-simian operated "major 'cloud' provider" who take a
>> day per ticket entry and we're at 19 ticket entires to try to get some
>> data out of them...
>>
>> And I'm finally there except the "....." operators have done a
>> cut'n'paste into their ticket system that then displays the data in a
>> javascript web panel. Looks pretty but totally useless for copying or
>> saving anywhere! (All by fiendishly unhelpful design?... No save or
>> export buttons...)
>>
>>
>> So... Any easy options to circumvent that?
>> (Other than screen dumps and OCR?!)
>>
>> (And so avoid another 4 days to tease them into doing anything useful!)
>>
>> And let this be a moral to you to *NEVER* allow all or /any/ of your
>> data to get sucked into someone else's 'cloud'...
>>
>>
>> (And no, I'm not that stupid but some other poor naive poor lost souls
>> have been...)
>>
>> :-(
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Martin
>
>

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