Warning to all: My development copy of comx.xml is attached. It works fine for me (except for King Features comics), but I have not tested it carefully. If you want to try it, save a backup copy of your current comx.xml.
Shawn, > > I'm still trying to get King Features comics (like Baby > > Blues) to work. They use JavaScript and the document > > referrer to deliver the comic image after the page loads. > > Anyone got any ideas how to make this work? > > Can you link me to a sample comic so I can look at the > javascript and write a regex for it? I'm sure it's possible > to parse the JS as easily as the tables from most other > comics. I've started using the code I initially wrote for > RSSX for just about all the screen scraping functionality I need. Try Baby Blues: http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/comics/Baby_Blues.dtl http://www.babyblues.com/ The first link may be slightly easier, since it doesn't load the image with a 'document.write'. They both have the same problem: If the referrer isn't correct, you get a bogus comic image. > You can add a referer header to the xmlhttp request, after > ".open", before ".send". It'll look kinda like this: > xmlhttpObj.setRequestHeader("referer","http://somepage";); Get out! I didn't know you could do that on xmlhttp requests. I'll try it! > The other alternative, though this is only effective for > normal searches, is to use a named target window and send two > requests to it, the first as the page you need as referer, > the second as the ultimate target. This doesn't work with > xmlhttp though. :( I've been thinking about that: creating a window, redirecting to the comic sight, retrieving the results. I haven't found an approach that works, yet. > For anyone wanting to try this functionality out (and it's > been a long-requested feature) please get the latest > defer_tools.js from CVS. I'll try it! Regards, Gregory Krohne
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