RE: [DQSD-Users] Comx request

2005-09-13 Thread Brent Beardsley
Hi Gregory, I fired up fiddler (http proxy) and saw that xmlhttp is setting the referer to the html page calling it (in my case: file://C:\Program Files\Quick Search Deskbar\search.htm) and ignoring what I tell it to set it to. Probably for security reasons. Possibly we could "shell out" to a co

RE: [DQSD-Users] Comx request

2005-09-13 Thread Gregory Krohne
Tried that. Doesn't work. I'm baffled. That's why I suggested throwing up a real browser window, and getting the comic back out of it somehow. And, yes: please do check in the political comics. -Original Message- Couldn't you use xmlhttp to download the image locally (you can fake the re

Re: [DQSD-Users] Comx request

2005-09-12 Thread Brent Beardsley
Couldn't you use xmlhttp to download the image locally (you can fake the referer I believe) and then point to the local copy of the image in the file generated by comx.xml? BTW, I added all the editorial (political) comics and was wondering if anyone else was interested in me checking these chang

Re: [DQSD-Users] Comx request

2005-09-12 Thread Gregory Krohne
This is exactly the same problem with all of the King Features Syndicate comics. http://www.kingfeatures.com/features/comics/comics.htm I tried to figure it out a few times, but I never could get a working solution. Maybe, DQSD could create a temporary popup window with the official URL and some sc

RE: [DQSD-Users] Comx request

2005-09-11 Thread Charlie Russel
Ouch, that doesn't sound promising. Darn. > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:dqsd-users- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Monty Scroggins > Sent: September 11, 2005 3:46 PM > To: dqsd-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: Re: [DQSD-Users] C

Re: [DQSD-Users] Comx request

2005-09-11 Thread Monty Scroggins
Hmmm I took a peek at this one.. There is a problem in that the comic image is served up through a content management system. If I extract the URL of the image and attempt to fetch it directly, there is an error generated - no referer. In other words, it looks to me that the comic will on

[DQSD-Users] Comx request

2005-09-11 Thread Charlie Russel
Anyone feel up to trying to add "Zits" to the comx list? It's a King Features one, so it's not available online at the more normal sources. I have found it online daily at the Seattle Post Intelligencer (http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/fun/zits.asp), but parsing the comx.xml file and figuring out how