You just want to open new URLs without typing them in?
#!/usr/bin/perl
@urls = ('slashdot.org', 'news.com.com', 'cnn.com', '
www.linux.com',
'phxlinux.org');
foreach $url (@urls) {
system("mozilla $url");
sleep 5;
}
On Wed, 14 Jan 2004, Vaughn Treude wrote:
> Here's a question for you web gurus: what I want to do is to control a web
> browser programmatically, specifically to tell an open browser window to open
> a new URL automagically rather than typing it in. It could be any Linux
> browser: Mozilla, Netscape, Galeon, Konqueror, Opera - maybe even Lynx.
> I've tried Googling this subject but it's a toughie because most of the
> returns are on using a browser to perform RPC, not "remote control" of a
> browser. Well, it actually wouldn't be "remote control" but I didn't know
> what else to call it in the search. :-) I've looked at browser specific
> howto's for Mozilla and Galeon but I'm not sure where to find the
> developer-type info rather than the user-type info. I
>
> 'm vaguely familiar with things like CORBA and SOAP but I'm under the
> impression that you use those to communicate with a server somewhere, not to
> manipulate a local web client. I know the "remote control" functionality
> must be possible because somebody's advertising a shareware product called
> JENNA which is supposed to support such browser enhancements as "slide show
> mode." (Or maybe it's just auto-generating an HTML or XML or Javascript file
> which you then have to load manually?) I'd appreciate the slightest hint
> to point me in the right direction - perhaps I'm using the wrong terminology.
> Many thanks in advance!
>
> Vaughn Treude
> Nakota Software, Inc.
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