Interacting with a Flash website.

Renwo · May 18, 2012

I am having trouble figuring out how to interact with a flash website. Is it even possible to do so?

I need to find elements, input text, and click buttons in a "application/x-shockwave-flash" object.

Anyone have any idea where to start?

jazzc · May 18, 2012

I really doubt this is possible. Maybe with image recognition where you will guess the position of the elements and move the mouse around to interact with them. Otherwise, I can't think of any simple way.

Chris22 · May 18, 2012

What are you trying to achieve by interacting with this flash website, are you trying to sign up, fill in a form?

Have you considered automating this at the network layer instead of the application layer?

Renwo · May 18, 2012

Chris22 said:
What are you trying to achieve by interacting with this flash website, are you trying to sign up, fill in a form?

Have you considered automating this at the network layer instead of the application layer?

Yes, it's basically signing up.

The process looks something like this:

Goto website -> Click register -> Fill out username, password 2x, email, click terms, enter captcha -> Click register -> Fill another input and select an item from a combobox -> click button -> wait for listbox -> scrape content from listbox -> click an item on listbox -> click a couple more buttons

Would this be possible to do with webrequest post/get?

Chris22 · May 18, 2012

Renwo said:
Yes, it's basically signing up.

The process looks something like this:

Goto website -> Click register -> Fill out username, password 2x, email, click terms, enter captcha -> Click register -> Fill another input and select an item from a combobox -> click button -> wait for listbox -> scrape content from listbox -> click an item on listbox -> click a couple more buttons

Would this be possible to do with webrequest post/get?

Absolutely.

It depends if the flash app is using requests, it could always be using sockets too.

Either way, whip out your http debugger or packet sniffer and have a snoop around.

smack · May 19, 2012

the most common form of network communication for flash applications is over UDP, not TCP/HTTP.

that's not to say that flash doesn't or can't communicate over TCP/HTTP, but they have quite a bit of support for UDP baked in to the framework.

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