I was considering using the LWP funtion "get" to retrieve information from a corporate website. I was planning on accessing the page every 2 hours, which is 12 accesses a day. Is this wrong ethically? The information I plan to access is "public" information, in that it can be viewed with a browser anyway. But I want to use perl to correllate this data. Would you guys be discusted with someone who would use this technique? or is it "OK" as long as I'm not hogging the server, by accessing the page every few minute. Also, is it "wrong" for my script to pretend its Netscape in order to recieve the page in a Netscape compatible form?

In reply to Fetching data from a corporate websites using LWP by Poblachtach32

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