Nick Rout <nickr@ihug.co.nz> wrote:

> has any bright spark worked out a script for automatically retrieving usage

> stats for adsl for telecom? seems like an ideal thing for a perl script or
> something similar, but its all beyond me!

It would have been trivial, but the way they have structured the "login," has
meant the simple things like wget, or lynx

lynx -auth=id:pw https://etc.etc

won't work, and I'm not well enough informed about the -get_data and -put_data
options to fill out the form automatically.

It's one of a number of ways the WWW is being broken so you can't derive your
own customised services out of what is provided. Javascript is another...

The frustration when a web page is displayed with instructions to "print out
this page or write down the details" is immense, but if you don't print it and
instead do what computers are good at, "saving" the "HTML," all later "static"
references will have javascript execution errors.

I have no problem with dynamic generation of pages, but please don't make them
dynamic in the browser...

> Nick Rout

Hamish.

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Received on Fri Mar 10 17:05:52 2000