Hi everyone, I saw a posting from Dave Golden recently about possibility of using password protected sites (Form driven) that require you to get authenticate before getting access to the content, and not seen any response, and since I have a similar request, I thought I should rephrase it in a slightly different way and perhaps some of the brains can converge here.
I am fully aware of the issues passing cleartext passwords and ids if used on the URL and debates that have taken place in the past on this thread. What I am willing to try is some of the content sites that simply make you sign up in order to keep track of you so they can custom tailor the content for your needs if they understand what you are interested in. The trend in this pattern seems to be growing consistently and these exposing the userid + password as a cleartext is not really a big harm, since most people I know create them because you have to in the first place and not really give any personal information that could be misused. Having said that, if a person is willing to live with the risk, is there a way one can consistently use a one specific approach to spider such web sites as well? Someone had offered (a while ago) to generate a URL that would be acceptable for password protected sites given a normal URL. I am not sure how that would work for all URLs that may be using different means to accept userid+passwords and authenticate you, but if anyone has thought through this topic and have any suggestions, I would be willing to listen or even communicate offline. Thanks, Bharat Welingkar _______________________________________________ plucker-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.rubberchicken.org/mailman/listinfo/plucker-list
