CasperJS doesn't open some sites

Question

CasperJS doesn't open some sites. Example - https://play.google.com. PhantomJs opens Google Play and hasn't any problems. But Casper doesn't want.

Casper returns

<html><head></head><body></body></html>

I tried add

--ignore-ssl-errors=true

--ssl-protocol=tlsv1 OR --ssl-protocol=any

--web-security=no

And again <html><head></head><body></body></html>

Nothing helps. What I can do for this? I need functions of Casper and I can't use Phantom.

my Js file:

var casper = require('casper').create();

var url = casper.cli.get(0);



casper.userAgent ( 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/36.0.1985.143 Safari/537.36' );

casper.start(url, function() {

/* func here */

var js = this.evaluate(function() {

    return document; 

}); 


this.echo ( js.all[0].outerHTML );                     

});

casper.run();

Maybe someone has an idea? What the problem?

Thanks.

Are you sure that CasperJS uses the same version of PhantomJS as the one that you used to open google play? When you install it through npm, CasperJS installs a private version of PhantomJS. This is a full casper script to check it: `console.log(JSON.stringify(phantom.version));phantom.exit();` — Artjom B., Feb 02 '15 at 14:19

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Feb 02 '15 at 17:17

I think i understand.

I created heavy page (more then 1 mln symbols) and tried open via Phantom and it works. And when I tried Casper it is crushed or it returned empty HTML code. The problem in big pages and Casper.

Casper can't handle heavy pages. I use last version.

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered May 08 '15 at 08:14

I found on other threads that this issue comes when opening https sites with CaperJS. See the discussion here.

Based on their input I added '--ssl-protocol=any' to the CaperJS call and it solved the issue.

I also found the same answer here on stackoverflow.

CasperJS doesn't open some sites

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