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> the top two (2) levels return but the actual articles do not. Is this
> natural or is there a way to correct this?
It is natural, so the system doesn't end up sending out 20-meg
attachments to users who may be "testing" templates, or who may use the
wrong maxdepth value. There are some sites for which a link depth of 3 or
higher, would basically end up fetching several thousand webpages. Not fun
to process server-side, or for bandwidth.
> The second issue is that occasionally some of the templates that I send do
> not return (usually when I send a few at a time) and occasionally when I
> do get them back, the .zip file will not appear on my desktop when I drag
> it to the desktop from my e-mail app.
You should be receiving an error email that indicates why your
template wasn't processed. I'll add a line to the code to Cc: myself in on
the errors, and see what might be causing these. The error emails look
something like the attached email. I just tried to send a request to pler
with no URL, and I received that error email back right away. Are you not
getting these error messages?
If the zip returned doesn't "drag it to the desktop", perhaps it's
empty? What happens when you double-click on the zip? Are there any files
inside it?
> Are there any things that I could do to help this?
The limitations are likely small (aside from bandwidth). There's a
few other features I want to add, but just haven't had the time recently.
I'm way behind on almost everything <sheepish grin>. There are a few
requests from people on the pler newsgroup for new features, and I'm working
on those in my spare minutes, which are scarce these days.
To solve the bandwidth issue, I'll just limit the final delivered
file size to be something like 300k instead, regardless of link depth used
in the template. If your fetched content is larger than 300k, it just won't
deliver it, and will return you an error message instead. Would that help?
> Thanks for making this service available!
You're quite welcome. Keep the feedback coming.
d.
perldoc -qa.j | perl -lpe '($_)=m("(.*)")'
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Date: Sun, 27 Jul 2003 17:43:03 UT
From: Plucker Email Reflector <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: David A. Desrosiers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: David A. Desrosiers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Encountered errors on Jul 27, 2003 at 13:43:03
There were errors encountered. Please resubmit your request again to retry.
If the errors persist, please be patient, something may have gone wrong on
the server or there may be permanent errors in your template.
Reasons for this error may shown below. If you do not see any indication of
error, please be patient, a copy of this error message was emailed to a
human pair of eyes to check it for errors.
For help using this tool, send a blank email with the subject of 'Help' to:
Plucker Email Reflector <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
===== ERROR: Required template element missing =========
In order for the system to gather your content, we need a URL to begin
with. You neglected to supply a home_url value in your initial template.
Please make sure to use the http:// in front of your request (this is
known as the "scheme" portion of the URL), such as:
home_url = http://www.site.com/
===== Original copy of pler template shown below =======
<template>
doc_name = abcnews
doc_file = abcnews
home_url =
bpp = 4
home_maxdepth = 3
home_stayonhost = No
home_staybelow =
home_stayondomain = Yes
home_url_pattern =
avantgo = No
maxheight = 160
alt_maxheight = 300
maxwidth = 160
alt_maxwidth = 300
category = ABC
charset = iso-8559
compression = zlib
anchor_color = #0000ff
referrer =
user_agent =
owner_id_build =
copyprevention_bit = No
launchable_bit = No
backup_bit = No
no_url_info = No
</template>
===== End of original pler template ====================
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