On 2006-06-06, Tim Chase <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> 4) Miscellaneous other stuff like grabbing all of the comic
>> strips I like every day and putting them on a local web
>> page so I can read them all in one place
>
> I wonder how many other folks have done this too. It was my
> first pet Python project, converting a Java rendition of the same
> app into Python. Shorter, clearer, faster, better...
>
> Mine uses my older Java config file (which, while tinkering with
> Java's XML libraries, ended up being XML),
Mine just has lists of strip/source pairs at the top of the
source code.
> supports Referrer/Referer spoofing,
Yup. Although I wouldn't actually call mine "spoofing". Since
I do grab the end URL from the referrer every time, it really
is referring me to the server where the image is.
> searches pages for regexps so that I can find image URLs that
> have been munged with random numbers (like dilbert.com does).
> It then builds a local HTML file that points at all the
> locally-saved images.
> I wonder what other sorts of features folks have added in their
> comic-snatchers...
Mine scales the images up by 50% -- the native image size
provided by the distributors is just too small on my 19"
1280x1024 screen.
> I tried a multi-threaded version in Java, but had problems
> with it saturating my dialup connection, and returning some
> sort of errors (perhaps in violation of HTTP's suggestion that
> one only have, IIRC, 2 connections to a server at a given
> time). I might try it again with Python. I saw some
> function-call fly by recently that looked like it took a
> function reference and an array of parameter-arrays, and
> spawned a thread for each function. I foolishly deleted that
> message, but it shouldn't be too hard to scare up again. I
> think it involved importing something from the future. A nice
> little status-GUI would be a nice addition, but I'm too lazy
> to go that far, leaving it with just a TUI. Might be a good
> way to learn Python GUI programming...
Mine runs as a cron job every morning before I get to the
office (which is where I read them -- don't tell anybody).
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