--- drieux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > volks, > > this is probably more an ethical question > than a technical question - since over the > plays here I have become better at reverse engineering > what webServers want pushed at them in the way of URI > by get or puts.... > > but is it kosher to reverse engineer how various public > web sites do this jazz - so that i merely wind up with > a cron job that will summarize the evening search for > jobs that are out there??? Hence in the morning review > a single piece of email daily rather than click my > way through all of them???
I think this is a great idea. Just be sure to be a good netizen and follow the Terms of Service that each site provides. Many sites (though I am not sure about the job sites) request that you do not use automated tools to access them (tools such as LWP, mirroring programs, etc). Cheers, Curtis "Ovid" Poe ===== "Ovid" on http://www.perlmonks.org/ Someone asked me how to count to 10 in Perl: push@A,$_ for reverse q.e...q.n.;for(@A){$_=unpack(q|c|,$_);@a=split//; shift@a;shift@a if $a[$[]eq$[;$_=join q||,@a};print $_,$/for reverse @A __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! - Official partner of 2002 FIFA World Cup http://fifaworldcup.yahoo.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
