Re: wget2 | Non-blocking API for external event loops (#550)

[Tim Rühsen]

Tim Rühsen commented:


Hey Walter,

no, wget2 can't execute JS. It would surely be possible with a plugin, if 
someone writes it.
Curl doesn't scrape/scan web sites at all - so it doesn't execute JS.

But my thoughts about JS are:
- better not execute arbitrary code on your machine from untrusted locations
- JS needs a certain browser environment that needs to be emulated
- which of all the JS functions do you want to execute ? (on loading or on some 
'action' ? and how do we fill in possible arguments to these functions)
- how to deal with interactive JS (asking for arbitrary user input)

I never dived deeper into this area, but if someone likes to work on it: it's 
sounds very interesting. But please come up with a design proposal for broader 
discussion before start coding.

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