_IELinkGetCollection returning no links

[Ebenezer]

Hi everyone!

I recently tried getting a list of links on the main page of Runescape. However, no matter what I do, the _IELinkGetCollection function returns 0. There are no errors either.

Since there are tons of links there (although they seem to have no title tag) I'm a bit stumped. Could someone enlighten me?

Thanks, Ebenezer

Func Clicklink()
    $o_IE = _IECreate(www.runescape.com, 0, 1, 1, 1)
    Sleep(100)
    
    $vLink = _IELinkGetCollection($o_IE, -1)
    MsgBox(0, "Links", @error & " --- " & @extended)

        _IELinkClickByIndex ($o_IE, 1, 1)
    
    Exit
EndFunc

[BitRot]

I'm a bit stumped. Could someone enlighten me?

Have you checked what that "_IECreate(...)" returns ? If I'm not mistaken that one allready returns an error.

Why ? Don't you think that that "www.runescape.com" should be between (double-)quotes ? It is just a piece of text you know ...

[Ebenezer]

Have you checked what that "_IECreate(...)" returns ? If I'm not mistaken that one allready returns an error.

Why ? Don't you think that that "www.runescape.com" should be between (double-)quotes ? It is just a piece of text you know ...

Thanks, but that's not the error.

This one crept in, when I cut out the function and replaced the global vars with values to make for a shorter codeblock .

I'm getting there all right. The part after that, that's the mystery to me

Thanks again - any more ideas about this ?

[BitRot]

Thanks, but that's not the error.

This one crept in, when I cut out the function and replaced the global vars with values to make for a shorter codeblock .

I see ...

I'm getting there all right. The part after that, that's the mystery to me

Thanks again - any more ideas about this ?

Yep, I do.

What you have here is an old obsfucation-trick : you think you are at the Runescape-page, but actually all you see comes from somewhere else.

What they have done is that they have used a single-frame link-thru to the actual page (see "_IEFrameGetCollection(...)"), which points, in this case, to : http://www.runescape.com/lang/en/aff/runescape/title.ws.

[edit]

Allso take a look at "_IEIsFrameSet(...)"

Edited September 19, 2006 by BitRot

[DaleHohm]

Allso take a look at "_IEIsFrameSet(...)"

Correct, View Source and you will see that the page is a frameset with one frame:

<frame src="http://www.runescape.com/lang/en/aff/runescape/title.ws" noresize scrolling="auto">

The frame has no name, so get a reference to it with:

$oFrame = _IEFrameGetCollection($oIE, 0)

(see the docs)

Dale

[Ebenezer]

Correct, View Source and you will see that the page is a frameset with one frame:

The frame has no name, so get a reference to it with:

$oFrame = _IEFrameGetCollection($oIE, 0)

(see the docs)

Dale

This page will drive me crazy - several layers of nested iframes with a flash button at the end .

Thanks to all of you. At least now I know where to start looking.

Ebenezer

Edited September 21, 2006 by Ebenezer