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PODoing an HTTP POST in Selenium IDE
 

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    <p>I would like to do a single HTTPS POST to a server using Selenium IDE with an XML payload. The service I'm interacting with doesn't support HTTPS GETs or I would do it that way. (Doing an HTTPS GET is really easy as the whole URL goes into a Selenium <em>open</em> command.) I know there are other ways to do HTTP POSTs such as with curl, but my web testing is currently done in Selenium IDE and I don't want to have to worry about two or three different tools to do my testing.</p> <p>I looked into <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/133925/javascript-post-request-like-a-form-submit">POST submission by Javascript</a> and modified the code I found there. I put it in as a storeEval command in Selenium IDE. The final version of the code is below:</p> <pre><code>var method = method || "post"; var path = "https://service.url.srv/"; var post = "&lt;xml&gt;payload&lt;/xml&gt;"; var form = document.createElement("form"); form.setAttribute("method", method); form.setAttribute("action", path); var hiddenField = document.createElement("input"); hiddenField.setAttribute("type", "hidden"); hiddenField.setAttribute("name", ""); hiddenField.setAttribute("value", post); form.appendChild(hiddenField); form.submit(); </code></pre> <p>When I ran a slightly modified version of the example code, I got a message in the Selenium IDE log saying that "document.body is undefined". I tried removing all references to document.body, hoping that a simple form object by itself would be enough. It wasn't. I got "form.submit is not a function". Perhaps there is some Javascript mojo that will work.</p> <p>I haven't found any references on Google or StackOverflow where someone is trying to do a HTTP POST in Selenium IDE. I'm willing to write an extension to Selenium if doing a POST is even possible.</p>
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