CHICKENFOOT

[CYBERCULTURE]

Hello,

I have created with CHICKENFOOT

http://groups.csail.mit.edu/uid/chickenfoot/faq.html

an automated random websurfing script for artistic purposes that visits randomly domains with 3 letters. It works great but sometimes it visits domains like this one below and it is stuck:

http://www.fvd.com

Any ideas how to detect and close these windows with js?
hope it is clear what I ask
thanks a lot for any answer..

 

[BillyRayPreachersSon]

You could potentially fire off an AJAX request (via a server-side proxy) to see what the return code / response is before visiting.

Hope this helps,
Dan



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[CYBERCULTURE]

thanks a lot for the answer..I am not a specialist in js.I found and used the script below which detects and closes the alerts and popups in firefox but not these authentication windows..Is it possible to detect and close somehow these windows with js?
like the one that appears in the above url(

http://www.fvd.com

)
any hint highly appreciated..

function closeWindow() {
  // get the most recent window





  var win = Components.

            classes["@mozilla.org/appshell/window-mediator;1"].
            getService(Components.interfaces.nsIWindowMediator).

            getMostRecentWindow(null);

  if (win == chromeWindow) { 
    output('----'); 
    return; 

  }

 //close the window

  try {
    win.doOK()
  }catch (e) {
    win.close();

  }
}

 

[BillyRayPreachersSon]

It might be possible, but if it is, I don't know how.

Like I said, you might be better off firing off a request to gauge the response before visiting the page.

Dan



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