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by hartator 3035 days ago
I still think it's premature. There is still couple of fields PhantomJS is better than Headless Chrome. Notably proxy support, and API aviability.
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ComputerGuru 3035 days ago
Yes, but what was in it for Vitallium? Continue working thanklessly on a project to serve others’ needs, who has a whole will leave en masse as soon as headless chrome gets to parity with proxy support?
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transreal 3035 days ago
That's not really true. You can use proxies with Headless Chrome using the --proxy-server command line parameter. And the API is richer that PhantomJS. See the underlying API documentation here: https://chromedevtools.github.io/debugger-protocol-viewer/to....
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hartator 3035 days ago
It's only for proxy without auth. So mainly local ones. There is no way to use username and a password right now for proxy with headless chrome.
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