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I wanted to know about the scope of web browsing through unix . I went through the following questions :

Is there a way to use curl interactively? Or is there an interactive curl/wget shell?

Automating web requests using curl?

and some more posts and questions like the above mentioned two questions .

I have tried to use curl and wget to fetch responses from web-pages in solaris. But have not yet investigated the possibility of simulating mouse clicks and filling forms through unix. The above questions inform of a handful of commands and libraries to do so but since nothing has been said specifically about the possibility to do so from unix so I could not assure myself .

So I would like to know if the ideas mentioned in the above questions like perl mechanise and libwww, lynk or curl (in interactive mode) can also be used for Unix (solaris ,specifically).

If yes,would you suggest some scripts that I can learn from ?

Amigorust Burrough
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    You should be aware that those tools are not so much "simulating mouse clicks and filling forms" as going a bit deeper: they are tools for creating HTTP(S) GET, HEAD and POST (and other) requests, either manually or controlled by scripts. As a result, some familiarity on what happens between the web server and the browser at the technical level is required to use those tools effectively. – telcoM Sep 23 '18 at 20:56

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Nothing in those question answers ties you to a Linux platform. If you have the applications installed on Solaris they'll work just fine.

Chris Davies
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Asking on

https://softwarerecs.stackexchange.com

Would be more appropriate but there are already answers such as

https://askubuntu.com/questions/29540/browsing-the-internet-from-the-command-line

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