Subj : Re: Novice seeking advice
To   : comp.programming
From : programmernovice
Date : Mon Aug 08 2005 03:44 pm


>
> First, learn the HTTP protocol.  Then, find out how these websites work,
> I.E. what kind of HTTP requests they generate from the information you type
> in manually.
>
> Then it should be a matter of forming an HTTP request such that it will get
> you the information you need, sending it to the right server, receiving the
> data you get in response (a text/html stream, usually), and cutting out the
> relevant bits.
>
> So what you need is a language that makes it easy and/or has libraries for
> parsing/forming text, and doing TCP/IP stuff.
>
> perl comes to mind, as does tcl, and probably a host of other high-level
> scripting type languages.  Depends on what you know already, really, and
> what you're comfortable with.
>
>
> SaSW, Willem
> --
Many thanks.  Is there a standard HTTP textbook that you would
recommend?  Thanks.

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