Saving a File Using WWW :: Selenium

Question

I am trying to download a file from perl WWW :: Selenium. I get a popup asking if I want to save / open the file. I want to manipulate it and say "save" in a specific place. I do not know how to do this. Please, help.

PS: I could not use WWW :: Mechanize for this page, and I need to use Selenium

Thank you so much!

Answer 1

Selenium cannot handle the save field, but a third-party utility, AutoIt , can. What we do is that our test code uses selenium commands to click the download link, and then execute the compiled AutoIt script file to save the file to disk.

Answer 2

I understand that with selenium 1.x this is impossible to do and remains to be implemented in selenium 2.

Cm,

http://www.jsystemtest.org/?q=node/70

and

http://wiki.openqa.org/display/SEL/Selenium+Core+FAQ#SeleniumCoreFAQ-Ican%27tinteractwithapopupupdialog.Myteststopsinitstracks%21