workaround for 403 or Forbidden

maaaaz / webscreenshot

A simple script to screenshot a list of websites

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workaround for 403 or Forbidden #47

Closed arbazkiraak closed 4 years ago

arbazkiraak commented 4 years ago

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/59954122/phantomjs-page-render-blank-white-background-image-on-403

page.render doesn't seem to work if page returns 403 status or Forbidden.
Do you have any workaround in mind to get the actual screenshot of page instead of transparent or plain background image.

maaaaz commented 4 years ago

Hello @arbazkiraak, I don't have a magic solution but some ideas:

first, try another renderer
second, redirect webscreenshot to a proxy, for instance BurpSuite, and edit the response code (403, to 200) to trick phantomjs

Cheers.

arbazkiraak commented 4 years ago

I don't think second option would be considered as a solution.

If you have a better way to tackle the problem within the script then please do push a workaround into the current script.

arbazkiraak commented 4 years ago

@maaaaz ,

Any update for this?

maaaaz commented 4 years ago

Absolutely not

arbazkiraak commented 4 years ago

Can you explain to me the reason why Phantomjs exits for the status code 403?

I have been looking for the reasons but I hadn't found it anywhere documented

maaaaz commented 4 years ago

I really don't know, try to investigate around the ContentOperationNotPermittedError error. And can you try to debug with the Cloud version of PhantomJS ?