On Fri, Jan 02, 2004 at 12:24:18PM -0600, Jay Johnston wrote:
> The problem is that my PHP script can't negotiate the key exchange for
> the SSL!
Your PHP script needs to speak client-side HTTPS to the server you're
scraping from.
> MILLION DOLLAR QUESTION: Will OPEN SSL allow my PHP script to
>
On Fri, Jan 02, 2004, Jay Johnston wrote:
>
> MILLION DOLLAR QUESTION: Will OPEN SSL allow my PHP script to authenticate
> an SSL connection to a secure server that is hosting the web-based
> directories and thusly return the HTML so I can query it for a string I am
> looking for?
>
The authen
On Fri, Jan 02, 2004 at 12:24:18PM -0600, Jay Johnston wrote:
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> SOLUTION IMPLEMENTATION:
> Back to my current delima of the needle-in-a-haystack searches I'm doing, I
> decided to create a program that would screen scrape for the string in the
> web-based file directories. First, however, I ha
LLION DOLLAR QUESTION at the bottom]
SOLUTION BACKGROUND:
Recently I came across an neat idea called 'screen scraping'. Maybe you are
familiar with it: for instance, if I wanted today's temperature on my webpage, I
could create regular PHP expressions that make a call to weather.com
