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Basic JSoup form Submission

My form submission does not seem to work, I tried JAunt it was able to submit so when using JSoup I don’t understand why it returns 404. I tried with: url https://crawlertest284814019.wordpress.com/contact/ data “name”, “nameeee” produces 404 status data “g7-name”, &#…

Java XSS Sanitization for nested HTML elements

I am using JSoup library in Java to sanitize input to prevent XSS attacks. It works well for simple inputs like alert(‘vulnerable’). Example: Output: “” However, if I tweak the input to the following, JSoup cannot sanitize the input. Output: <script>alert(‘vulnerable’…

Get n-th child Element with Jsoup

For example a web site has a code like this: and I want to get the “second” div text with “Jsoup” and it has no attribute or class. Answer There are few ways to to it. select returns Elements instance which extends ArrayList<Element> so you can select all child divs and pick one …

Is there a way to convert an element link to XPath

I have written a Jsoup class file to scrape a page and grab the hrefs for every element on the page. What I would like to do from there is to extract the Xpath for each of the elements from their hrefs. Is there a way to do this in JSoup? If not is what is the best way to