[Tutor] Capturing browser pop-ups / push advertising. etc.

[Sean 'Shaleh' Perry]

On Monday 21 October 2002 09:50, McCarney, James Alexander wrote:
> Hi Pythonistas universal and triumphant! ;-)
>
> Is there a way any of you know how to capture what is on a pushed brows=
er
> screen or pop-up...
>
> For instance, if I access a site, then more 'cr*p' than you can shake a
> stick at gets launched. I would like to see what it is as text.
>
> I am probably biting off more than I can chew here.
>
> Insights appreciated. Cheers.
>

ideas:

a) using something like mozilla, you could likely plugin to their javascr=
ipt=20
system and get the info (not likely in python though)

b) the canonical way to do this is to implement a http proxy and within t=
he=20
proxy watch for the javascript and do something else with it