Brian Williams wrote:
> Correct me if I'm wrong here but doesn't this mean that any dork with a
> free website can send a script their their client and easily grab the
> unprotected content of any other site, parse through it all and display
> it as their own, thus sucking up my bandwidth and none of their own, and
> not only that, I can't even block the jerk because it's not his/her
> server that'll be hammering mine, it'll be his clients that do it.
Ummm, no. This doesn't do anything that the "dork" couldn't already do. Copy
paste a "View Source" from your site and make sure that all the links and
resources are pulled from your site and then server the HTML from his page.
All this does is some clever tricks with <script> tags. Any 5th grade dork can
create a <script> tag.
> Additionally, I can't see why many admins would need access to something
> like this. If you are the admin of several different sites you probably
> already do, or could have, access to the necessary data by means other
> than javascript.
You're assuming that you are always in charge of the data. What happens when you
want to use someone others site's API to create a Mashup? If you can offload the
download and processing to the client you've saved a ton of time, bandwidth and
CPU.
--
Michael Peters
Developer
Plus Three, LP
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