#prowser

Something very silly prov wanted me to try drawing for him. I was telling him about my silly yoshi sona and how I feel super conflicted how much I LOOOOVE bowser but I didn’t feel motivated at all to try and make a bowser-sona. So instead I laughed at finding my old ass Yoshisona from 2009 and he’s like “Nah I’ll be bowser you can be my princess.” I said I don’t ever feel suited to be a princess - why can’t I just be mario instead then? He was like welp okay.

NOW I JUST... BEEN THINKING ABOUT IT ALL NIGHT..... And I even drew a little... and... hnng.. lmao... I just am so bad at drawing right now. This is so srappy and painful to post but I rather share SOMETHING over nothing. So I’m sucking it up, posting it cause I love you so much @provinite!

I had no idea what I wanted AJ Mario to look like - only joke I said is that I def need overalls and no shirt under to be extra HOT. So while drawing I def gave Fire-AJ Overall shorts (omfg I want overalls so bad like my fav aesthetic) and then to be extra cute for silly o’ me I gave her soft tan lines. Tan lines are so sexy and I just couldn’t resist since I’m trying to work on getting some right now. Figured Fire-AJ is working outside a lot doing... something... in super mario universe. Let’s say she’s like.. a gardener, I don’t know. Her major stock? Fire Flowers! So obv AJ has to have fire powers. /finger guns.

ARCTIC PROWSER! A troublesome long king on the mountain just over AJ’s home town. He likes to make lots of trouble so she comes over and cleans it up for him and scolds him. He wants to ask her out but he’s too shy yet so he’s just making a ruckus. (I googled fire flower and saw ice flower and just eee had to draw those too lol)

Prowser looks better in those big black spikey chokers that usual bowsers wear, but one time AJ cut herself on his and he freaked out really hard. Now he has new soft round chokers he loves very much.

In the development of my next Android app, a mobile client for a web forum, I was looking for a library to make HTTP requests. The most agreed upon library to use was Apache's HTTPClient. Which this can get the job done, it was too much for me and sought something easier. Then I came across Prowser. The description drew me in immediately. "The Prowser library enables applications to easily surf the web via an API that simulates the way a human user would operate a tabbed GUI browser." That's something I can get behind. Now the library is complete with some good documentation and Javadocs but like always, when I eventually had a problem, I searched around and found virtually nothing on it. I was compelled to write something about it, talk about it a little bit. It's been so useful for me and I must share it. Like the discription says, "Prowser simulates a way a human user would operate a tabbed GUI browser." For me, I imagined Prowser like my browser and I just copy-paste the source from the page and put it into an interface I want. I let the browser handle everything else, most importantly (for me): cookies. I was having a hard time capturing and sending cookies to manage a user session on the forum but Prowser made it easy. I hope these quick guides can help you get starting using Prowser: Loading a page (a GET request):     public class Browser {        Tab tab = new Prowser().createTab();    //A new browser tab                //Browser         public static String browser(String url) {                        Response response = tab.go(url);     //runs the url             String result = response.getPageSource();  //Gets HTML response                        return result;         }            } Prowser works in Tabbed instances like the browser you're using now. First make a new tab. Next we make a Response varible and have it run tab.go(String url), which runs the url given. Like typing in http://dnetb.tumblr.com in your address bar and hitting enter. Next we get the source from the Response as a string with .getPageSource(). With that I can parse it and format it how I want for the application. Filling in a form (a POST request):     public class Browser {         Tab tab = new Prowser().createTab();    //A new browser tab                //Login         public static String login(String username, String password)  {         //New request to do POST command             Request req = new Request("http://dnetb.tumblr.com/);                req.setHttpMethod("POST");             req.addParameter("b", username);             req.addParameter("p", password);             req.addParameter("r", "");                        Response result = tab.go(req);                        return result;         } The forum I'm building this app for uses form based authentication. Submitting the information uses the HTTP POST request which Prowser supports. First we get a new Prowser tab. Next we build a Request. We won't simply use tab.go(String url). The Request contains the URL, HTTP Method (in this case, POST), and then we add our parameters. I needed three. We use Request.addParameter (String name, String value). You will want to check the website you're POSTing to and check what the form name is. I used Firebug to get that information. After your values are added we run the Tab for a Response but instead of a url in go() we send the request: tab.go(Request).