Inter Process Communication

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kanzure edited this page Mar 31, 2013 · 13 revisions

There are multiple ways to handle inter-process communication between PhantomJS and other processes.

File I/O

files
sockets
named pipes

HTTP

outgoing HTTP requests (to other processes/services) ** GET/POST data to a server endpoint ** GET/POST data to a server endpoint, parse resulting JSON/XML/HTML/etc.
incoming HTTP requests (server)
route PhantomJS traffic through an HTTPS proxy like mitmproxy/libmproxy

Websockets inside a WebPage context

hixie-76 websockets only
PhantomJS 2.x will eventually get a WebKit upgrade that has RFC 6455 websockets.

stdin, stdout, and stderr

See the stdin-stdout-stderr.js example script for details.