I recently started delving into the world of Mechanize, beginning my learning journey just yesterday.
Just to clarify, my motives are purely educational, with no intention of causing harm. I selected this particular site due to its use of AJAX/Javascript (although I'm unsure), among countless others I could have chosen. Your assistance in my learning process would be greatly appreciated.
During my exploration, I stumbled upon the webpage www.snapdeal.com. Upon closer inspection of this site, clicking on the 'Register' link reveals a dropdown menu which, upon selecting 'Register using email', displays a form, likely powered by Javascript or AJAX (the exact technology remains uncertain).
Acting on my curiosity, I inputted data into the 'Register using email' form and obtained the following results:
1. I successfully traced the POST Request that the website initiates upon clicking the Register button within the 'Register using email' form. Here are the associated details:
1.a. Request Headers:
POST /signupAjax HTTP/1.1
Host: www.snapdeal.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:36.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/36.0
Accept: application/json, text/javascript, */*; q=0.01
Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.5
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded; charset=UTF-8
X-Requested-With: XMLHttpRequest
Referer: https://www.snapdeal.com/iframeLogin
Content-Length: 128
Cookie: u=143332124339995687; [...]
Connection: keep-alive
Pragma: no-cache
Cache-Control: no-cache
1.b. POST Parameters:
CSRFToken=02325b364cc453ca796e76b365655b5ff020674e
ajax=true
j_confpassword=1234567
j_password=1234567
<a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection" class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="5e34012b2d3b2c303f333b632f1e3b292c293b2c70263133">[email protected]</a>
1.c. Location with Parameters:
https://www.snapdeal.com/signupAjax?CSRFToken=02325b364cc453ca796e76b365655b5ff020674e&ajax=true&j_confpassword=1234567&j_password=1234567&j_username=q%40ewrwer.xom
2. Furthermore, I managed to intercept the request that the website makes to display the registration form:
2. a. Location:
http://www.snapdeal.com/omn/getOmnitureCode?eventType=RegisterLinkInHeader&
2.b. Request Headers:
POST /omn/getOmnitureCode?eventType=RegisterLinkInHeader& HTTP/1.1
Host: www.snapdeal.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:36.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/36.0
Accept: text/html, */*; q=0.01
Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.5
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
Content-Type: application/json; charset=utf-8
X-Requested-With: XMLHttpRequest
Referer: http://www.snapdeal.com/?logoutSuccess=success
Cookie: u=143332124339995687; [...]
Connection: keep-alive
Pragma: no-cache
Cache-Control: no-cache
Content-Length: 0
Notably, upon clicking the 'Register using Email' link in the 'Register' popup, the website did not trigger any additional GET or POST requests.
With my limited experience in Mechanize, how can I access the 'Register using Email' form on the website? Would an additional library be necessary, given my recent introduction to Mechanize? Any guidance, accompanied by a complete code explanation, would be immensely helpful to me.
Once again, I reiterate that this endeavor solely serves educational purposes. Disregard any notion of security infractions—I aim to grasp the implementation of Mechanize on websites like these (that's the main objective!).