Randy,
>I am not sure I agree with your statement. If I choose to make my
>printer friendly page a graphic instead of a standard html table as long
>as it still prints fine you would have no recourse. About the only thing
>you could do is take your business elsewhere. Right?
Unless you have an ag
>> no matter what approach you take, they will get the content from the
page.
Exactly, and even if the approach is 100% efficient, they will not pay
anyway.
So any attempt to stop them is a waste of time.
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animated.
with a tranprarent 2 pixel deal bouncing back & fors.
with content in same said gif, animatinting in oposit dir..
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Recourse against what?
Once a company gets to the point of intentionally breaking their product
to make it less useful to their customers, it's a very bad sign. I have
no idea why either party would still want to be in such a business
relationship unless one is holding the other's data hostag
I believe Cameron was questioning the morality of designing something
like that instead of the technical issues.
Personally, I think that if I provide data to your company, I should be
able to scrape it back if I'm already paying for your service. It's kind
of ass-hatish to do what you are cons
I am not sure I agree with your statement. If I choose to make my
printer friendly page a graphic instead of a standard html table as long
as it still prints fine you would have no recourse. About the only thing
you could do is take your business elsewhere. Right?
-Randy
Cameron Childress wrot
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> Subject: Re: Stopping a Screen Scrape
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Does this application contain financial data for the company? Are they
attempting to get access to their own financial information in order to
put it into QB and run their business? Your employer wants to prevent
them from doing this? This raises a ton of ethical and moral
questions. I know
I am not sure how they are doing the screen scraping, but perhaps something
like a clear gif stretched over the page would be an impediment (to cut and
paste).
Good luck.
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I have had to deal with the scraping of reports problem before. I solved it by
presenting report content with a flash object.
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Michael David
> Printing is the point of the report... hitting print screen would be
> fine. I am just looking for a way to obfuscate the printer friendly
> f
Printing is the point of the report... hitting print screen would be fine. I am
just looking for a way to obfuscate the printer friendly from scrape technology
that would convert the output HTML to say a CSV or pipe delimited.
I agree that "stopping" somebody intent on this is improbable. they
I was going to suggest sending the report to a PDF and turning off copy and
pasting... but then I read it was CF5 so yeah you are just going to have to
make it HARDER to do but I don't think you can prevent it totally.
J.J.
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> Just started w
As we all know, the bane of scraping is inconsistency, and changing specs.
So, make sure your page is inconsistent and changes constantly.
Add extra divs, change the id and names of the divs, change the style
and other attributes on each page load, Change the number and
attributes or div, span, t
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From: Jason Liebgott
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Sent: Wed Jul 18 18:53:19 2007
Subject: Re: Stopping a Screen Scrape
I don't charge anybody
>I think as an intellectual challenge it would be fun to try to thwart
>the screen scraper, but how much does the upgrade cost?
>
>I don't really personally care or want to know what you charge for the
>upgrade, but think of it in terms of, "We charge $xx.xx for the
>upgrade, the fix is going to ta
I don't charge anybody anything. I'm a programmer. I don't make up the sales
rules or talk to clients.
This company has offered clients a "Lite" version for a reduced price and one
of the features is a print friendly of a report.
I have no idea how much the upgrade costs - but it comes with ex
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> Subject: Stopping a Screen Scrape
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> Just started working on a legacy application built in CF5. It appea
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From: Jason Liebgott
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Sent: Wed Jul 18 17:59:23 2007
Subject: Stopping a Screen Scrape
Just started working o
Just started working on a legacy application built in CF5. It appears that one
of the users is screen scraping printer friendly HTML output and moving the
data into quick books in order to avoid paying for the export upgrade.
Ideas I've had to muck up the data to stop the scraper:
1. random whit
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