security quirk

2013-01-29 Thread RichD
I read Wall Street Journal, and occasionally check articles on their Web site. It's mostly free, with some items available to subscribers only. It seems random, which ones they block, about 20%. Anywho, sometimes I use their search utility, the usual author or title search, and it blocks, then I

Re: security quirk

2013-01-30 Thread RichD
On Jan 30, Gandalf Parker wrote: > > Web gurus, what's going on? > > That is the fault of the site itself. > If they are going to block access to users then they should also block > access to the automated spiders that hit the site to collect data. well yeah, but what's going on, under the hood?