Re: web downoload robots

From: Bruno Wolff III (bruno@cerberus.csd.uwm.edu)
Date: 12/21/01 

From: Bruno Wolff III <bruno@cerberus.csd.uwm.edu>
Date: 21 Dec 2001 18:51:03 GMT

In article <jyzo4clkji.fsf@dot.invalid>, Michail Pappas wrote:
>
> ... And accurate attitude which I absolutely share. I block scripting
> almost everywhere, yet certain sites do exist that are absolutely
> needed yet use javascript. Not much I can do but enable scripting
> there. I don't like it, yet I don't boycott it.

I usually try reading the Javascript to see what it is doing. Sometimes
I can figure out the next URL to goto or I can determine that the
code isn't doing anything harmful. Of course I have to want the information
pretty bad to go to all of this trouble.