[penguicon-general] anyone out there know....??

[Ron Blanchett]

Sounds like he is trying to circumvent your rules so that he can
re-use your data somewhere else.
I would tell him to take a hike, if this isn't someone yu have working
for you on something.

-Ron

On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 12:14 PM, Lady Sarah <ladysarahmarie at gmail.com> wrote:
> What he's saying is that he should be exempt from our rule of "no more than
> 250 results per set of criteria entered" rule because each new page is a new
> query to the database and therefor a new search and the data can NOT be
> scraped this way.
>
> Is he telling me the truth? or has there just not been a hacker clever
> enough to pull the data from their site yet?
>
> Sarah
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> On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 12:10 PM, Rick Scott <rick at shadowspar.dyndns.org>
> wrote:
>>
>> (Lady Sarah:)
>> > What is up is that I have a programmer telling me that the way
>> > this language works it has rendered the data (of ours) that they
>> > are displaying on their website effectively "unscrapeable" and I
>> > need a verification on that.  Do you know if this is true?
>>
>> If you're using AJAX (a programming technique using javascript, not
>> a language unto itself) to render data, it can make it more difficult
>> to scrape because most site scraping tools don't implement javascript.
>> I wouldn't say it's impossible, though.
>>
>> What exactly is this programmer saying?  That the data they need has
>> been rendered unscrapeable and that's problematic because they need to
>> retrieve it that way?  Or are they making a security claim -- that they're
>> displaying some data and because they're using AJAX to do so it's
>> unscrapeable?
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Rick
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