Wim Vandersmissen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> perl msparse.pl "link-to-microsoftdownload" "where to put it"
> 
> The link-to-microsoftdownload has to be 
> http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=somthing&displaylang=en 

Ah, screen scraping.  Very cool!

In fact, it is so cool that I think we should rewrite "prepare" in
Perl and incorporate your logic.  Then most of the URL download
comments could be generic.  Something like this:

:: 
URL|generic|http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=somthing&displaylang=en|updates/ie6sp1

Then we could eliminate most of the comments with direct download
locations.

Of course, this presupposes we have someone willing to maintain the
screen-scraping logic should Microsoft change the format of their
pages.  What do you think?

Not for this release, though :-).

 - Pat


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