Re: Stripping content from other sites using "socket" connections

>>>>>>>Is anyone directly familiar with this and could elaborate
on how it works?<<<<<


Here is the technical info of retrieving www pages .
http://search.cpan.org/author/GAAS/libwww-perl-5.65/lib/LWP.pm

We have implemented this type of programming on many sites

I have many examples if you would like to see them off list.

sincerely,
Bob Laurence
Re-Data.com LLC
"We may not know it all, but we know the web"


----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike Taylor" <lonewolf(at)one.net>
To: <hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org>
Sent: Thursday, December 12, 2002 3:35 AM
Subject: Stripping content from other sites using "socket"
connections


: I've found an increasing number of sites using some sort of
"socket"
: connection to query a third-party site, wait for its response,
and then grab
: the resulting HTML and integrate it seamlessly into the look
and feel of
: their own website to give one the impression that the data
actually came
: from them.  This is accomplished, from what I understand,
without the use of
: XML technology --they are quite literally sending the query off
to the third
: party site, then the third party site responds with the
rendered HTML on the
: backend, invisible to the user.
:
: Is anyone directly familiar with this and could elaborate on
how it works?
:
: An example of this can be found here:
: http://www.gonow.com/00_options_tools.html?menu2=o3
:
: The calendar portion is coming from an entirely different site,
but they've
: been able to grab the HTML, manipulate it, and put it on this
page
: real-time.  So if the calendar were updated on the third-party
site, the
: results of those changes would still show up in the link above.
:
: My guess is that this probably works beautifully unless the
originating site
: decided to suddenly change their own layout, but I'm still
curious what type
: of tools are needed to accomplish it.
:
: Thanks,
: Mike
:
:
:
:

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