Walking Through the ACT Script

In this section, we walk through the script generated by the test wizard earlier today. A request routine is generated for each item on the page being browsed. These requests include the main page and each image, for example. In the simple example you created, you browsed only the main page, which did not contain any other objects and is the first SendRequest1() for the main page.

The first thing to note is that this is VBScript and all variables are declared without a data type and re-created as variants, which is the only data type in VBScript.

Option Explicit
Dim fEnableDelays
fEnableDelays = False

Sub SendRequest1()

The Dim also highlights the main objects of interest in ACT, the Connection, Request, Response ...

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