[Interest] Getting response from external web page

[Larry Martell]

On Mon, May 2, 2016 at 5:07 PM, Jérôme Godbout <jerome at bodycad.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> Just an idea, after you submit, does the web page change url? maybe you
> could change it if possible, that would help you know the submit is
> completed via urlChanged() signal.
>
> Not sure which version of Qt, but if you can move to qwebengineview
> http://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qwebengineview.html

If I use QWebEngineView  how can I get the response from the page?

> The web page should store the answer somewhere and make it possible to
> access it.
>
> Not sure how to achieve that with QWidgets, in Qml with WebView you can
> request runJavaScript(), maybe someone can point out any equivalent for
> QWidget.
>
> Maybe if you redirect after submit, you could plain put the answer into the
> web page where you could read the content of the page once url changed to
> answer and page is finish loaded.
>
> Not sure if you have control over the webserver side or web page here.
>
> Jerome
>
>
> On Mon, May 2, 2016 at 4:19 PM, Larry Martell <larry.martell at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> I have a situation where I want to bring up a web page that the user
>> will interact with, and when they click on a submit button a response
>> is sent, and I want to get that response in my Qt program and then
>> destroy the view with the page. I am able to bring up the page like
>> this:
>>
>>   Dialog.resize(1500, 1000);
>>   loginView = new QWebView(&Dialog);
>>   loginView->setObjectName(QStringLiteral("webView"));
>>   loginView->setUrl(QUrl(QStringLiteral("http://foo.bar.com/baz/")));
>>   Dialog.exec();
>>
>> But I have no idea how I could get the response sent when the user
>> submits the page, nor how I would destroy the page.
>>
>> Can anyone help me with this?