[nylug-talk] Xvfb and browser response issues

[Dave Aitel]

Another good way would be to use a simple proxy (like SPIKE Proxy :>)
which could tell you if it had any outstanding requests. Then you could
use whatever browser you wanted.

-dave


jonathan said:
> I'm doing a project that involves taking snapshots of web pages, and
> saving them as images.
>
> Using Xvfb, mozilla or skipstone, and the import command gets the job done
> very well. The only issues is that the two graphical browsers that I've
> tried, when called from the command line, don't give back any kind of
> status reponse.
>
> Does anyone know of a good graphical browser that does? I'm looking for
> something parsable that might tell me if its finished loading a particular
> URL, for example.
>
> Also, another idea came to me. Would it be feasible to use something like
> netstat to see if a particular process was actively transfering data? I'm
> not terribly familar with netstat or other related commands. Might this be
> a way to determine what the browser running on Xvfb is doing?
>
> Thanks.
>
> jonathan
>
>
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