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

[Lady Sarah]

Thanks, Rich!

If our IT department doesn't know already this is going to be VERY helpful.

Sarah

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On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 2:36 PM, Rich Elswick <painbank at gmail.com> wrote:

> Back to this... with AJAX being a javascript, unless it is a 'secure'
> script, which no one has access to, then someone could scrape the data from
> your site.  I am not familiar with a way to secure Javascript, unless access
> to the script is limited ala permissions and such.
>
> As to scraping past the 250 limit, Steve and Rick pretty much covered that
> it can be done.
>
> As to a bit more description of AJAX as an example... your traditional HTML
> page would return 250 results and someone would have to click a 'next page'
> button or tag to go to another HTML page displaying the next 250 results.
> For AJAX, they still click the 'next page' button, but the HTML page isn't
> updated...  but a XMLHttpRequest is generated to the server, which returns
> 'data' of some sort, which then the Javascript for the previously loaded
> HTML page updates the currently viewed web page with the new data.
>
> Here is a pretty good description of the basic tenent of it all:
>  http://www.w3schools.com/ajax/ajax_httprequest.asp
>
> Rich
>
>
>
>
> On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 11:58 AM, Lady Sarah <ladysarahmarie at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> 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?
>>
>> Thanks!
>> Sarah
>>
>> *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
>> Lady Sarah, que_sara_sara
>> "It only takes 20 years for a liberal to become a conservative without
>> changing a single idea." ~~Robert Anton Wilson
>> Music Programming, Penguicon 7.0
>> The Chocolate Goddess, coming soon to a con near you
>> Warrior Princess of the Clan of the Lonely Goatherd
>> IWG Wench #539 MCL, Local 69
>> Scarlet B. Harlot, Figure Head for the Scarlet Harlot -- Privateer #36
>> W3NCH, the HAM Radio Wench
>> "...because you can't spell Wench with an 8!"
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 11:48 AM, Rich Elswick <painbank at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Yes I do.  It is a java script language construct, which uses network
>>> communications to allow changing of web pages without using the forward/back
>>> buttons on the browser toolbar.
>>>
>>> Why, what is up?
>>>
>>> Rich
>>>
>>> On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 11:36 AM, Lady Sarah <ladysarahmarie at gmail.com>wrote:
>>>
>>>> Anyone on this list know anything about a programming language called
>>>> Ajax?  If you do, please email me off list.
>>>>
>>>> Thank you!
>>>> Sarah
>>>>
>>>> *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
>>>> Lady Sarah, que_sara_sara
>>>> "It only takes 20 years for a liberal to become a conservative without
>>>> changing a single idea." ~~Robert Anton Wilson
>>>> Music Programming, Penguicon 7.0
>>>> The Chocolate Goddess, coming soon to a con near you
>>>> Warrior Princess of the Clan of the Lonely Goatherd
>>>> IWG Wench #539 MCL, Local 69
>>>> Scarlet B. Harlot, Figure Head for the Scarlet Harlot -- Privateer #36
>>>> W3NCH, the HAM Radio Wench
>>>> "...because you can't spell Wench with an 8!"
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