Patrick Beard: TechnicalInteresting technical tidbits...(Untitled)- April 14, 2002 Very interesting article on defeating spambots. Lots of useful background information about web spiders, firewalls, and using interesting Apache Perl modules. I keep seeing references to MySQL, so I checked to see if it is available from fink, and happily it is!http://radio.weblogs.com/0102607/categories/technical/2002/04/13.html#a48 (Untitled)- April 13, 2002 Enabled feedback comments, by going to http:127.0.0.1:5335systempagesprefspage=3.4, which is the template for each news item. However, the last two posts that I added on 12-April-2002 mysteriously disappeared.http://radio.weblogs.com/0102607/categories/technical/2002/04/13.html#a46 (Untitled)- April 9, 2002 I'm working on a way to extract plaintext from HTML documents. My first approach will be a DFA state machine scanner that simply extracts the non-markup tokens. This will work for most documents, except when there are script tags, which will provide the bulk of the noise I expect. To remove these, I may have to resort to a full blown HTML parser.http://radio.weblogs.com/0102607/categories/technical/2002/04/09.html#a45 |