Website dynamically generating an parameter called esessionid
Hi,
We are scraping a website which generates a new essesionid for each request.
somewebsite.com/someAction?esessionid=6A7CF116899FFBB239AE24FFC006262A_1&LANGUAGE=EN&formid=DESH_PLANNING_APPS
After some research we figured out that this parameter was used by some access control mechanism to authenticate
sessions. Is it possible for screen scraper to intercept or predict the esessionid.
Appreciate your support in this issue- Regards-Dipti
No way to predict it. Often
No way to predict it. Often when you see this, the referrer has this value in an HTML form that you can scrape and save as a variable. Other times they set it on a redirect, and you can't see it to scrape, but the session is set when the redirect is followed. In that case I would used a script to call scrapeableFile.getCurrentURL() and parse the value out of the string.