HtmlUnit A "browser for Java programs".
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A "browser for Java programs". HtmlUnit models HTML documents and provides an API that allows you to invoke pages, fill out forms, click links, etc... just like you do in your "normal" browser.It has fairly good JavaScript support (which is constantly improving) and is able to work even with quite complex AJAX libraries, simulating either Firefox or Internet Explorer depending on the configuration you want to use.It is typically used for testing purposes or to retrieve information from web sites.HtmlUnit is not a generic unit testing framework. It is specifically a way to simulate a browser for testing purposes and is intended to be used within another testing framework such as JUnit or TestNG . Refer to the document "Getting Started with HtmlUnit" for an introduction.HtmlUnit is used as the underlying "browser" by different Open Source tools like Canoo WebTest , JWebUnit , WebDriver , JSFUnit , Celerity , ...HtmlUnit was originally written by Mike Bowler of Gargoyle Software and is released under the Apache 2 license . Since then, it has received many contributions from other developers , and would not be where it is today without their assistance. Here are some key features of "HtmlUnit": · Support for the HTTP and HTTPS protocols · Support for cookies · Ability to specify whether failing responses from the server should throw exceptions or should be returned as pages of the appropriate type (based on content type) · Support for submit methods POST and GET (as well as HEAD, DELETE, ...) · Ability to customize the request headers being sent to the server · Support for HTML responses · Wrapper for HTML pages that provides easy access to all information contained inside them · Support for submitting forms · Support for clicking links · Support for walking the DOM model of the HTML document · Proxy server support · Support for basic and NTLM authentication · Excellent JavaScript support Requirements: · Java 2 Standard Edition Runtime Environment

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