* John Von Essen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [01 Oct 2002 16:27]: > Who's side are you on? Google's?
Yep. > Yeah - I read the TOS - and thats wonderful. Aren't there any old > hackers on these mailing lists? Am I the only one who wants to try and > find a way to "stick-it" to Google and successfully retrieve queries > without conforming to their API license? I would, except I don't think Google deserve a 'sticking'. Out of interest, what's wrong with using the API? > There must be a way to perform a GET request in Perl that is > indecipherable from one originating from a browser. > We just need to find that way... Obvious solution: fake every header. It's quite easy to find what headers the browser sets, and you just need to duplicate all of them. Obviously there's some leeway since Lynx, Mozilla, Galeon, IE etc can all happily access Google. cheers, -- Iain.
