This recipe introduces methods for submitting XHR (XMLHttpRequest
) or Ajax requests from PhantomJS and describes how to deal with the responses.
To run this recipe, we will need a script that makes a direct request to a URL that expects XHR.
The script in this recipe is available in the downloadable code repository as recipe13.js
under chapter03
. If we run the provided example script, we must change to the root directory for the book's sample code.
Lastly, the script in this recipe runs against the demo site that is included with the cookbook's sample code repository. To run that demo site, we must have Node.js installed. In a separate terminal, change to the phantomjs-sandbox
directory (in the sample code's directory), and start the app with the following command:
node app.js