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Re: Thumbnail menu CGI script
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Fri, 19 Jan 2001 04:06:57 GMT
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On Fri, Jan 19, 2001 at 03:12:10AM +0000, Erik Olson wrote:
Besides, it's also illegal now--Altavista is going to sue anybody who uses
this algorithm because they patented it. So be careful. (Yeah, right.)

they've patented what algorithm?  regexping a webpage?  writing spiders???

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(...) Yeah, all of that. Including: spidering, spidering more than one webpage into the same index, putting different categories of the index on different web pages, and a business model patent for using the web to bypass local decency laws. Just (...) (24 years ago, 19-Jan-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)

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(...) If you want to use URLs to retrieve files, there is the Perl module LWP which has a "User Agent" tool. I use it to retrieve a set of web pages each week. With Brickshelf you can't get a plain list of your directory though. But you could make a (...) (24 years ago, 19-Jan-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)

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