"Angus Scott-Fleming" <[email protected]> wrote on 08/08/2009 10:20:08 PM:
> On 7 Aug 2009 at 13:21, Christopher wrote: > > > luck. I also googled a bit, but could only find an Expert's Exchange > > question (that sounded exactly like my problem) but of course I'm not > > signing up andpaying any cash for it. > > Often if you can set your browser's User Agent to "GoogleBot" you'll > be granted > full access to the page. Only a few sites are 'smart' enough to match the > GoogleBot agent against a list of known googlebot IPs ;-) > > The Agent String I use is "Googlebot/2.1 (+http://www.googlebot. > com/bot.html)" What works for me: if an Expert's Exchange link comes up in a Google search, I click on the "cached" link of that entry. Then, I click on the "text only view" when the cached version comes up. That usually lets you see the thread, without having to sign up. Or it used to, anyway. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
