Render HTTP Response(HTML content) in selenium webdriver(browser)

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I am using Requests module to send GET and POST requests to websites and then processing their responses. If the Response.text meets a certain criteria, I want it to be opened up in a browser. To do so currently I am using selenium package and resending the request to the webpage via the selenium webdriver. However, I feel it's inefficient as I have already obtained the response once, so is there a way to render this obtained Response object directly into the browser opened via selenium ?

EDIT A hacky way that I could think of is to write the response.text to a temporary file and open that in the browser. Please let me know if there is a better way to do it than this ?

short answer no. Long answer, there are hacky ways like what you are trying but why bother? What do you gain by all that effort? — e4c5, Apr 22 '16 at 06:01
@e4c5 as I said, I want to open a page response in selenium only if it meets a certain set of conditions in its response, if I simply open up all the requests in browser that would make my application slower due to the unnecessary responses that the browser will be rendering — bawejakunal, Apr 25 '16 at 07:47
@PadraicCunningham to check for XSS execution, the code tries to inject alerts as a proof-of-concept RXSS and then checks in the browser for it successful execution. — bawejakunal, Apr 25 '16 at 15:22
Have you tried [`selenium-requests`](https://pypi.python.org/pypi/selenium-requests/)? — JRodDynamite, May 02 '16 at 05:50
@JRodDynamite yes I tried `selenium-requests` but that doesn't seem to be working as expected, there isn't proper rendering within the browser, moreover it opens and closes new tabs instead of working in the current tab. — bawejakunal, May 03 '16 at 04:22

Florent B. · Answer 1 · 2016-04-25T15:37:01.103

To directly render some HTML with Selenium, you can use the data scheme with the get method:

from selenium import webdriver
import requests

content = requests.get("http://stackoverflow.com/").content

driver = webdriver.Chrome()
driver.get("data:text/html;charset=utf-8," + content)

Or you could write the page with a piece of script:

from selenium import webdriver
import requests

content = requests.get("http://stackoverflow.com/").content

driver = webdriver.Chrome()
driver.execute_script("""
  document.location = 'about:blank';
  document.open();
  document.write(arguments[0]);
  document.close();
  """, content)

Render HTTP Response(HTML content) in selenium webdriver(browser)

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