[AWS] Client side

[Pascal Obry]

Ehud Lamm writes:
 > Well, I wanted to see if this list is active, as I haven't seen any posts
 > yet.

Seems to work :)

 > As I already told the authors directly, AWS is great, and a huge resource
 > for Ada programmers. Thanks.

Thanks!

 > So as to make this post a bit more interesting, let me rasie some issues
 > that are of interest to me at the moment.
 > 
 > I am more intereted in building web-clients (crawlers, filters etc.) than
 > using the server. AWS allows you to write simple client side programs, with
 > remarkable ease. One problem I encountered was that the site I wanted to
 > traverse uses both cookies and Javascript. Both are not really esential (I
 > don't need to keep the cookies for ever, for example),. but without dealing
 > with them, as they are part of the authization process, I can not get to the
 > HTML. Any suggestion on how to solve this without to much work, would be
 > great.

Support for cookies has been added very recently in AWS. This will be part of
a futur release. But there is nothing for Javascript. Are you saying that some
Javascript code is used for authorization ?

 > The main reason I put in the "without too much  work" requirement above is
 > that I am thinking about using this as a class project for my students.

Well if you really need Javascript I see no easy solution.

 > Since they don't have to know a thing about the web, HTTP, and so on, all
 > this low level work must be done by the framework. Otherwise I want be able
 > to use this as an assignment.
 > 
 > Anyone else uses or plans to use AWS in education?
 > 

Pascal.

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