Lex Lucas: > The problem is that the information exists on a website with a 'https' > secure address, and Plucker does not seem to support this. In > the FAQ it suggests using Site Scooper but it seems to be aimed > more at getting news articles and (being a non-programmer) I could > not make it work anyway. Also JPluck says it supports access to > secure sites, but I couldn't make that work either
When Plucker began, distributing something that could do https was somewhat risky from a legal standpoint. Today, it can be done, and plucker should be able to handle it; I will help if that is really the only problem. But it probably isn't, since JPluck doesn't work either. Most likely the site is also asking users to sign in (or why bother to encrypt?), and it may also be trying to track them with cookies or using javascript. There are workarounds to kind-of-sort-of support each of these, but ... they probably won't be easier than using sitescooper. If you don't have a budget to fund the improvement, and you don't have a year to wait ... sitescooper really may be your best bet. An alternative would be finding a way to server (or even just echo) them without the https; that may or may not be easier than getting sitescooper up. Since they're free, do you really need to encrypt them, or would http be OK? Is this a one-time creation, or do you need to let the doctors get updates on their own schedules? -jJ _______________________________________________ plucker-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.rubberchicken.org/mailman/listinfo/plucker-list
