Re: Pluck pages requiring password

[Wesley Mason]

Kannry, Joseph wrote: Nice but does it interfere with plucker desktop or does it work with it http://jpluck.sourceforge.net/ It's a java based parser with some unique features.  If your site requires you to login and stores that login via cookies, Jpluck may be able to take advantage of that.  But you also need to use a browser like Netscape or Mozilla/FireFox which store cookies in a cookies.txt file.  IE stores the cookies in a totally different fashion that Jpluck has yet to add support for. :-/ I use this for grabbing rss feeds with cookie support for places like LiveJournal.  No other RSS program seems to allow for this.  So this has been a godsend.  It also helps that LiveJournal supports a 'forever logged in cookie'. --Wes More of a replacement for it.  They are parallel projects that try to achieve similar goals.  Plucker Desktop if I remember is front end to the Python parser.  Jpluck is a self contained parser.  Both have their strengths.  For instance Jpluck does not have table support.  Likewise, the Python parser doesn't have cookie support (last I checked). Jpluck also has some other nifty features which despite the lack of table support, has made it my primary parser for Plucker. --Wes -- -- Wesley Mason -- TDPSoft.net <!-- Club88 -->