[Robots] Re: matching and UserAgent: in robots.txt

2002-03-14 Thread Tim Bray
Sean M. Burke wrote: I'm a bit perplexed over whether the current Perl library WWW::RobotRules implements a certain part of the Robots Exclusion Standard correctly. So forgive me if this seems a simple question, but my reading of the Robots Exclusion Standard hasn't really cleared it up

[Robots] Re: better language for writing a Spider ?

2002-03-14 Thread Tim Bray
At 09:47 AM 14/03/02 -0800, srinivas mohan wrote: Now as the performance is low..we wanted to redevelop our spider..in a language like c or perl...and use it with our existing product.. I will be thankful if any one can help me choosing the better language..where i can get better

[Robots] Re: better language for writing a Spider ?

2002-03-14 Thread Tim Bray
At 10:36 AM 14/03/02 -0800, Nick Arnett wrote: I wish I could be more specific, but I never did figure out what was really going on. Following an LWP request through the debugger is a long and convoluted journey... I totally agree with Nick that when LWP works, it's OK, but when it doesn't,

[Robots] Re: better language for writing a Spider ?

2002-03-15 Thread Tim Bray
Sean M. Burke wrote: In short, if people want to see improvements to LWP, email me and say what you want done For robots, you need a call that says fetch this URL, but get a maximum of XX bytes and spend a maximum of YY seconds doing it. Return status should tell you whether it finished

Re: [Robots] Is this mailing linst alive?

2003-11-04 Thread Tim Bray
On Nov 3, 2003, at 11:16 PM, Nick Arnett wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've created a robot, www.dead-links.com and i wonder if this list is alive. It is alive, but very, very quiet. Yeah, this robots thing is just a fad, it'll never catch on. -Tim