On Wed, Aug 04, 2004 at 02:44:56PM -0400, Patrick J. LoPresti wrote: > 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?
Sounds good, the only problem is that you don't know if Microsoft changes the FamilyId thing or not. But ofcourse we have the same problem now with the direct download URLs. > Not for this release, though :-). Hehe /me starts coding ;) --Wim ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by OSTG. Have you noticed the changes on Linux.com, ITManagersJournal and NewsForge in the past few weeks? Now, one more big change to announce. We are now OSTG- Open Source Technology Group. Come see the changes on the new OSTG site. www.ostg.com _______________________________________________ unattended-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-devel
