Interesting and disconcerting article, Allen. It does not affect what I am currently doing, but it definitely could put a damper on many of the ways I see companies wanting to use eBAY. > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, April 18, 2000 7:06 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [REBOL] Why can't I read this URL? Re: > > > > Hi Ralph, > > Be careful what you use this for, sadly eBAY are starting to sue for > commercial use of their data > > Auction Ruling could harm ecommerce > http://www.zdnet.com/anchordesk/story/story_4698.html > > Bidder's Edge Case > http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2550905,00.html > > Cheers, > > Allen K > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Wednesday, April 19, 2000 7:23 AM > Subject: [REBOL] Why can't I read this URL? > > > > Trying to do a simple search on eBAY where: > > > > > > a: read/lines > > > http://search-desc.ebay.com/search/search.dll?MfcISAPICommand=GetR esult&Sort > Property=MetaEndSort&ht=1&query=%22Mike+Resnick%22&srchdesc=y > > then I can parse out the info I want, but I get ** User Error: URL error in > REBOL. > > What am I not seeing here? Other types of search URL's from eBAY work great > for me. > > Thanks, > > --Ralph Roberts > > >
