[Robots] .NET gatherers/spiders

2002-02-21 Thread Erick Thompson
Does anyone know if there are any open source/free .NET spiders under development? I am developing a custom search engine system, and don't want to have to reinvent the wheel, but I would like have everything in .NET. Thanks, Erick -- This message was sent by the Internet robots and spiders

[Robots] Save request/response strings?

2002-04-03 Thread Erick Thompson
Is there any value in saving the request and/or response strings generated during an index? I can't think of any use for them, aside from statistical analysis of the index, but I wanted to make sure. Thanks, Erick

[Robots] Multilanguage robots

2002-04-05 Thread Erick Thompson
I'm working on a multi language spider, and I've come to a point where I'm not sure what assumption to make. If I download a page from a Chinese (for example) server, there is a chance that 1. http header says a Chinese charset but page is in English 2. http header says nothing, meta tag says a

RE: [Robots] robot in python?

2003-11-25 Thread Erick Thompson
There are built in methods/objects for dealing with both cookies and http authencation. It can even handle x509 cert. see HttpWebRequest.Credentials HttpWebRequest.ClientCertificates HttpWebRequest.CookieContainer So if you wanted to simulate a session, you'd have to hold onto an instance of a