Re: RE: MORE Checker Samples

[Jock Dempsey <guru@anvilfire.com>]

Previously:
>> A third checker option to check for a string provided by the
>> Ringmaster would let me check for 'BlacksmithsRingID' (or any
>> other line in the Javascript) and the checker would work for my
>> rings and others that are using my jsNAVBAR.
>I see your point, but I'm not ready to give it very high priority for
>the time being.
I may run a few more tests of the new system but without this option the
checker does me no good at all.
The access problems may not be related to how a browser accesses a page but
the way a spider accesses a page.  The rules and system responses may be
different.  I know there are rules for spiders such as checking and abiding
by the ROBOTS.TXT file.  I understand that you are not "spidering" sites in
the technical sense since all you are checking is the one page per site,
however you ARE spidering that page. . .  In any case, I don't know much
about these systems except that what you are doing is more like a spider or
robot than a browser.
In THAT line of thought I wonder if the server sensing a spider or robot is
responding differently than it does to a browser.  The server knows the
type of browser AND spiders.  .  .  Maybe your "signature" (or lack of one)
sent to the other server is producing an undesired response.
Jock Dempsey
http://rings.anvilfire.com/