Re: security quirk

2013-01-31 Thread Gandalf Parker
RichD contributed wisdom to news:badd4188-196b- 45e3-ba8a-511d47128...@nh8g2000pbc.googlegroups.com: > On Jan 30, Gandalf Parker > wrote: >> > Web gurus, what's going on? >> >> That is the fault of the site itself. >> If they are going to block access to users then they should also block >> ac

Re: security quirk

2013-01-30 Thread Arne Vajhøj
On 1/29/2013 11:55 PM, RichD wrote: I read Wall Street Journal, and occasionally check articles on their Web site. It's mostly free, with some items available to subscribers only. It seems random, which ones they block, about 20%. Anywho, sometimes I use their search utility, the usual author

Re: security quirk

2013-01-30 Thread alex23
On Jan 31, 5:39 am, RichD wrote: > well yeah, but what's going on, under the hood? > How does it get confused?  How could this > happen?  I'm looking for some insight, regarding a > hypothetical programmimg glitch - As has been stated, this has nothing to do with Python, so please stop posting yo

Re: security quirk

2013-01-30 Thread Auric__
Martin Musatov wrote: > On Jan 29, 8:55 pm, RichD wrote: >> I read Wall Street Journal, and occasionally check > [snip] > > Ignoring the big ol' unneccessary crosspost... What the fuck? -- Oooh, I just learned a new euphemism. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: security quirk

2013-01-30 Thread Big Bad Bob
On 01/29/13 20:55, RichD so wittily quipped: I read Wall Street Journal, and occasionally check articles on their Web site. It's mostly free, with some items available to subscribers only. It seems random, which ones they block, about 20%. Anywho, sometimes I use their search utility, the usua

Re: security quirk

2013-01-30 Thread Joel Goldstick
On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 2:39 PM, RichD wrote: > On Jan 30, Gandalf Parker > wrote: > > > Web gurus, what's going on? > > > > That is the fault of the site itself. > > If they are going to block access to users then they should also block > > access to the automated spiders that hit the site to

Re: security quirk

2013-01-30 Thread RichD
On Jan 30, Gandalf Parker wrote: > > Web gurus, what's going on? > > That is the fault of the site itself. > If they are going to block access to users then they should also block > access to the automated spiders that hit the site to collect data. well yeah, but what's going on, under the hood?

Re: security quirk

2013-01-30 Thread Gandalf Parker
RichD contributed wisdom to news:b968c6c6-5aa9- 4584-bd7a-5b097f17c...@pu9g2000pbc.googlegroups.com: > Web gurus, what's going on? > That is the fault of the site itself. If they are going to block access to users then they should also block access to the automated spiders that hit the site t

Re: security quirk

2013-01-30 Thread Martin Musatov
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Re: security quirk

2013-01-29 Thread Chris Rebert
On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 8:55 PM, RichD wrote: > I read Wall Street Journal, and occasionally check > articles on their Web site. It's mostly free, with some items > available to subscribers only. It seems random, which ones > they block, about 20%. > > Anywho, sometimes I use their search utilit

Re: security quirk

2013-01-29 Thread Rodrick Brown
On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 11:55 PM, RichD wrote: > I read Wall Street Journal, and occasionally check > articles on their Web site. It's mostly free, with some items > available to subscribers only. It seems random, which ones > they block, about 20%. > > Anywho, sometimes I use their search util

Signal versus noise (was: security quirk)

2013-01-29 Thread Ben Finney
RichD writes: > Anywho, sometimes I use their search utility, the usual author > or title search, and it blocks, then I look it up on Google, and > link from there, and it loads! ok, Web gurus, what's going on? That evidently has nothing in particular to do with the topic of this forum: the Pyt

security quirk

2013-01-29 Thread RichD
I read Wall Street Journal, and occasionally check articles on their Web site. It's mostly free, with some items available to subscribers only. It seems random, which ones they block, about 20%. Anywho, sometimes I use their search utility, the usual author or title search, and it blocks, then I