Hi all. Jerry, I figured I'd send this message to the list so it can be archived for the humorous enjoyment of future generations. Hope you don't mind :?).
On Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 10:53:23AM -0400, Jerry Welsh wrote: > You haven't by chance selected the option for it to remain on the > originating site? I see that slashdot has a lot of links to other > web sites. I had tried a 2, 3 & 4 depth limit, all with one of free-for-all (allow offsite links), domain limit & server limit. The only difference was with the amount of time & links traversed (small to HUMONGOUS!), but it never would give me past page 1. > I would do two levels of depth and make sure you have the option for > it to not remain on the site. Portal sites are always trickier and > take a bit of doing. That's the default, I believe, and thus the first thing I tried. > Seeing as there are lots of images and ads and such, I would > probably disabled images or else keep them relatively small. I had disabled images, but if you check the http://slashdot.org/palm sub-site, it only has the logo image anyway. Checking the palm site out in IE, it's already page formatted. I wonder if it would make a difference if I tried plucking the main page instead. I'll give it a try & report back. > I use JPluck which is an alternative to Plucker and creates Plucker > documents as well. It has fewer options but appears to handle some > sites better than others. You can always try that if you get > frustrated with Plucker. I'll keep it in mind. And BTW, thanks for the sample db, I assume it was made with JPluck(?) I'll check it out. thks >On Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 09:44:11AM -0500, Jeff wrote: >> I downloaded & searched through the list archives, but couldn't >> find an answer to this. The problem I'm having (which also occurred >> with Avantgo), is that the whole content of a page isn't getting >> downloaded. Slashdot, for example, will never give me anything >> beyond page 1. >> >> At first I thought this was because of the link limit of 2, so I >> tried increasing it, but of course then plucker goes on a >> free-for-all downloading everything off the net (an exageration, >> but you get the idea). I then excluded offsite links, but even then >> it chugs for a long time & still doesn't get the whole thing. >> >> Has anybody else experienced this, and has hopefully come up with a >> solution? -- GROG! MMM NetBSD: No hype required. -- David Brownlee thks (o o) --ooO-(_)-Ooo-- _______________________________________________ plucker-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.rubberchicken.org/mailman/listinfo/plucker-list
