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Re^2: Download web data
by Anonymous Monk on Oct 15, 2010 at 15:52 UTC
    roboticus,
    Thanks for the prompt reply!
    Do you have more info for the first opton?
    cheers!
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      Reading is something you have to do with your eyes. Emulating is something you have to do with your brain.

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      The Firefox Live HTTP Headers extension is invaluable for this kind of thing. You can watch the requests and responses go by and then write LWP or WWW::Mechanize code to duplicate the sequence.

      There are recording proxies that are supposed to do this automatically but I've never had much successs in getting them to work.

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