>Not likely. If you want to submit something, feel free. However, I don't
>see how you can pick up JavaScript links since there are essentially an
>infinite ways of making "links" in JavaScript. If you have some general
>solution, I'd be interested in seeing it.
I first must imply that one writes "good" javascript and abides by certain
rules when writing it. it also assumes that you are indexing pages within an
organization that has standardized ways of writing HTML, PDFs and
Javascript. if these things are standardized, it's quite easy to pattern
match for javascript links.
the href property is officially associated with only the location, area and
link objects. this means that location.href=, area.href=, and link.href= are
the only standardized ways to put links in javascript. we can pattern match
for location.href= quite easily. this is the most commonly used way to make
a link in javascript. the link itself is either root relative or absolute.
>It might be easier to do this in Flash, but I don't know much about the
>format.
this is alot trickier. flash movies are compacted and vector based, almost
like compiled code, and are only readable by a flash plugin or special flash
reader. if you open a flash movie in a hex editor (even a good text editor),
you can find the URLs and just follow them. the main issue with htdig is
parseing the code for hex when encountering an .swf file. i figure (and this
is only theory so far) you can use the variety of freeware C++ objects that
do hex parsing. as i said, this is very much theory and i'd like to hear
some input on it if anyone has any.
dave
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