Hi monks, I'm stymied once again ... I'm pulling links off a webpage at http://biz.yahoo.com/rf/archive.html. For a long time (about a year) I had a cronjob set to go to this page every hour and retrieve all the links and check the link contents.

All the sudden the program stopped working. So I shut it down. Now I'm going back to see what the problem might be. When i run the program after it hasn't run for days or hours it pulls the links down fine and completes its run. Buuuttttt, when i try to run it two times in a row (even with a 10 min break in between) ... it won't go the second time. Is the website keeping track of my program and blocking it from repeated visits somehow? If so how would i fix this? Any other ideas what might be happening?

Muchos Gracias Monks. I appreciate all your help.

chris

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