Trying to walk .NET page with Ajax (asynchronous) output

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tboyer
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Trying to walk .NET page with Ajax (asynchronous) output

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I'm having difficulty getting results back from a .NET site. Form is here: http://soswy.state.wy.us/Rules/Default.aspx

I've dealt with .NET before but this one is more advanced. I'm posting everything it needs (including __VIEWSTATE and __EVENTVALIDATION) but I don't get the results because they are sent asynchronously. It sends the form page back (which I receive) and then sends the results a second later in a separate window (which I do not receive). Is there some use of <sleep> I can use to make the script wait for the Ajax data?

I'm using following settings:
<urlcp maxpgsize 10MB>
<urlcp timeout 30>
<urlcp reparentmode abs>
<urlcp javascript on>
<urlcp getframes on>
<urlcp getiframes on>
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Trying to walk .NET page with Ajax (asynchronous) output

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Texis does not currently support fetching the AJAX data directly into the page. When crawling you would end up with a somewhat confusing view of the site, as the URL never changes, and you can't necessarily get the user back to a specific view of the application.

You may need to post the AJAX request in a <fetch> or <submit> you generate from the page, and then parse the data that comes back from that.
John Turnbull
Thunderstone Software
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