diff options
| author |   Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com> | 2011-05-16 19:39:04 -0400 |
|---|---|---|
| committer | Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com> | 2011-05-16 19:39:04 -0400 |
| commit | 49108fa6ea9847f72f8d1aa3bdc469b627367f5b (patch) | |
| tree | 608eb57b2f5af9ab8cdfd0ab784888531b63bf22 | |
| parent | Add headless wrapper example. (diff) | |
| download | ServerExecute-49108fa6ea9847f72f8d1aa3bdc469b627367f5b.tar.xz ServerExecute-49108fa6ea9847f72f8d1aa3bdc469b627367f5b.zip | |
Add readme.
| -rw-r--r-- | README | 40 |
1 files changed, 40 insertions, 0 deletions
@@ -0,0 +1,40 @@ +====================|=============|======================== +====================|ServerExecute|======================== +====================|=============|======================== + ~~~~~~~|~~~~~~~~~~~~~|~~~~~~~~ + ~~~~~~~| by zx2c4 |~~~~~~~~ + ~~~~~~~|~~~~~~~~~~~~~|~~~~~~~~ + \ / + \ / + \ / + \ / + \ / + \ / + \ / + ^ + web 2.0 + +ServerExecute is a simple program written in Qt. It makes +use of QtWebKit. It fetches a webpage, executes all the +JavaScript, and waits for all AJAX requests to be +completed. It then returns compliant HTML as if the site +did not rely on AJAX in the first place. This is designed +as a simple alternative to using more cumbersome projects +like HtmlUnit that rely on Java. + +##### Requirements ##### +* Qt, from http://qt.nokia.com +* Xvfb, if running an unpatched Qt on a headless server + +##### Compilation ##### +$ qmake +$ make +$ ./ServerExecute http://zx2c4.com +... + +##### Notes on Headless ##### +QtWebKit requires an X server. You can patch this using +various patches available on the Internet, or you can use +a simple in-memory X server buffer called Xvfb. See the +included example script on how to do this. It is trivial. + |