Re: updates multilang download parser thingy
Hi Shad! Of course, this presupposes we have someone willing to maintain the screen-scraping logic should Microsoft change the format of their pages. What do you think? The problem is, Microsoft already has different pages. On most of the pages you have to click a Download-Button to get a file, but on some pages I visited yesterday (ws2k3 if I remeber correct) there were ordinary download links. Given the case that MS changes there pages more often over time we have to enhance the script to first detect the type/version of the page and to handle every different version. MS does not change older pages when inventing new formats. Sounds good, the only problem is that you don't know if Microsoft changes the FamilyId thing or not. But ofcourse we have the same problem now with the direct download URLs. MS does not change file download urls. If they change other urls they always (okay: often) have redirections. No problem with that. This also assumes that microsoft wont change their naming convention or make some of the download use en instead of enu. But, we can work around those as they come up. They already exists and I had to rewrite that yesterday. (Don't remember where) I am not convinced - we should use this excellent tool to get the download links when the patches arrive but then put them into the scripts like we do that now. cu Niels --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by OSTG. Have you noticed the changes on Linux.com, ITManagersJournal and NewsForge in the past few weeks? Now, one more big change to announce. We are now OSTG- Open Source Technology Group. Come see the changes on the new OSTG site. www.ostg.com ___ unattended-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-devel
Re: updates multilang download parser thingy
Hi Wim! don't forget to escape the : Sorry, I've overlooked the . With them it works without escaping. cu Niels --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by OSTG. Have you noticed the changes on Linux.com, ITManagersJournal and NewsForge in the past few weeks? Now, one more big change to announce. We are now OSTG- Open Source Technology Group. Come see the changes on the new OSTG site. www.ostg.com ___ unattended-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-devel
Re: updates multilang download parser thingy
On Wed, Aug 04, 2004 at 02:44:56PM -0400, Patrick J. LoPresti wrote: Wim Vandersmissen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: perl msparse.pl link-to-microsoftdownload where to put it The link-to-microsoftdownload has to be http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=somthingdisplaylang=en Ah, screen scraping. Very cool! In fact, it is so cool that I think we should rewrite prepare in Perl and incorporate your logic. Then most of the URL download comments could be generic. Something like this: :: URL|generic|http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=somthingdisplaylang=en|updates/ie6sp1 Then we could eliminate most of the comments with direct download locations. Of course, this presupposes we have someone willing to maintain the screen-scraping logic should Microsoft change the format of their pages. What do you think? Sounds good, the only problem is that you don't know if Microsoft changes the FamilyId thing or not. But ofcourse we have the same problem now with the direct download URLs. Not for this release, though :-). Hehe /me starts coding ;) --Wim --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by OSTG. Have you noticed the changes on Linux.com, ITManagersJournal and NewsForge in the past few weeks? Now, one more big change to announce. We are now OSTG- Open Source Technology Group. Come see the changes on the new OSTG site. www.ostg.com ___ unattended-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-devel
Re: updates multilang download parser thingy
Of course, this presupposes we have someone willing to maintain the screen-scraping logic should Microsoft change the format of their pages. What do you think? Sounds good, the only problem is that you don't know if Microsoft changes the FamilyId thing or not. But ofcourse we have the same problem now with the direct download URLs. This also assumes that microsoft wont change their naming convention or make some of the download use en instead of enu. But, we can work around those as they come up. -Shad --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by OSTG. Have you noticed the changes on Linux.com, ITManagersJournal and NewsForge in the past few weeks? Now, one more big change to announce. We are now OSTG- Open Source Technology Group. Come see the changes on the new OSTG site. www.ostg.com ___ unattended-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-devel
