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
