How to follow a link in QWebKit?

[piotr.dobrogost]

Having a DOM of the following html;

<a href="?op=order">
<img class="img_button" src="picture.gif"
  onMouseOver="this.src='some.gif';"
  onMouseOut="this.src='some_other.gif';"
  alt="" border="0">
</a>

<a href="?op=order">
<img class="img_button" src="picture.gif"
  onMouseOver="this.src='some.gif';"
  onMouseOut="this.src='some_other.gif';"
  alt="" border="0">
</a>

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how to follow a link (href) in QWebKit (specifically QWebPage).

Please notice that it's an image that is linked.
I can't do it (and I don't want to even if I could) by simulating a mouse click as I don't use QWebView thus I don't have the page rendered.