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Today's topics:
pb download file on internet site <baptiste.fevre@gmail.com>
Re: pb download file on internet site <peter@makholm.net>
Re: pb download file on internet site <baptiste.fevre@gmail.com>
Re: pb download file on internet site <baptiste.fevre@gmail.com>
Re: pb download file on internet site <peter@makholm.net>
Re: pb download file on internet site <joost@zeekat.nl>
Re: pb download file on internet site <peter@makholm.net>
Re: pb download file on internet site <baptiste.fevre@gmail.com>
Re: pb download file on internet site <RedGrittyBrick@SpamWeary.foo>
Re: pb download file on internet site <syscjm@sumire.gwu.edu>
Re: pb download file on internet site <baptiste.fevre@gmail.com>
Re: pb download file on internet site <peter@makholm.net>
perl script to interact with PC port <rajendra.prasad@in.bosch.com>
Re: perl script to interact with PC port <RedGrittyBrick@SpamWeary.foo>
perl utility <nitindutt2005@gmail.com>
Re: perl utility <m@rtij.nl.invlalid>
Re: perl utility <joost@zeekat.nl>
Re: PERL vs. Ruby <ron@nowhere.ford>
pop langs website ranking <xahlee@gmail.com>
Re: pop langs website ranking <cor@clsnet.nl>
Re: pop langs website ranking <ptmcg@austin.rr.com>
Re: pop langs website ranking <gerry@nowhere.ford>
Re: pop langs website ranking <lew@lewscanon.com>
Re: pop langs website ranking <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid>
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Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2008 08:40:52 -0700 (PDT)
From: Winston75 <baptiste.fevre@gmail.com>
Subject: pb download file on internet site
Message-Id: <a54a8b34-886c-4933-a5f7-1cd4daa4ed18@a22g2000hsc.googlegroups.com>
hi,
no errors in my code, but not downloaded file on my disk .
getstore ($url, $filename) not working? i don't know, any ideas?
thanks,
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use warnings;
use LWP::UserAgent;
use LWP::Simple;
use HTML::SimpleLinkExtor;
my $base='https://username:password@www.mysite.com/index.html';
my $ua = LWP::UserAgent->new(agent => 'Mozilla/4.73 [en] (X11; I;
Linux 2.2.16 i686; Nav)' );
my $req = HTTP::Request->new( GET => "${base}" );
my $res = $ua->request($req);
die $res->status_line
if not $res->is_success;
my $extractor = HTML::SimpleLinkExtor->new(); $extractor->parse($res-
>content);
my @allLinks = $extractor->links;
for (@allLinks)
{
if (/zip/)
{
my $url="https://www.mysite.com/index.html/$_";
my (@tab)=split / \ / /;
my $fileName = $tab[1];
print "downloading $fileName....";
getstore($url, $fileName);
print "Done !\n";
}
}
exit(0);
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Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2008 15:47:14 +0000
From: Peter Makholm <peter@makholm.net>
Subject: Re: pb download file on internet site
Message-Id: <87tzhrjlvh.fsf@hacking.dk>
Winston75 <baptiste.fevre@gmail.com> writes:
> no errors in my code, but not downloaded file on my disk .
> getstore ($url, $filename) not working? i don't know, any ideas?
You don't test the return value of getstore(). This might tell you
something useful.
//Makholm
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Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2008 08:55:35 -0700 (PDT)
From: Winston75 <baptiste.fevre@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: pb download file on internet site
Message-Id: <a81c9958-f6b0-496c-8b73-750c177222f7@34g2000hsh.googlegroups.com>
On 24 avr, 17:47, Peter Makholm <pe...@makholm.net> wrote:
> Winston75 <baptiste.fe...@gmail.com> writes:
> > no errors in my code, but not downloaded file =A0on my disk .
> > getstore ($url, $filename) not working? =A0i don't know, any ideas?
>
> You don't test the return value of getstore(). This might tell you
> something useful.
>
> //Makholm
thanks, sorry i'm newbie in perl, how to test return value of
getstore()??
print result?
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Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2008 09:03:47 -0700 (PDT)
From: Winston75 <baptiste.fevre@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: pb download file on internet site
Message-Id: <aa7e6ac8-9e47-4a56-8bb1-f6b872db7091@27g2000hsf.googlegroups.com>
On 24 avr, 17:55, Winston75 <baptiste.fe...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 24 avr, 17:47, Peter Makholm <pe...@makholm.net> wrote:
>
> > Winston75 <baptiste.fe...@gmail.com> writes:
> > > no errors in my code, but not downloaded file =A0on my disk .
> > > getstore ($url, $filename) not working? =A0i don't know, any ideas?
>
> > You don't test the return value of getstore(). This might tell you
> > something useful.
>
> > //Makholm
>
> thanks, sorry i'm newbie in perl, how to test return value of
> getstore()??
>
> print result?
Ok :
getstore ($url, $filename);
print $!;
Result --> bade file descriptor !!
zip are correct and not corrupt!
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Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2008 16:08:07 +0000
From: Peter Makholm <peter@makholm.net>
Subject: Re: pb download file on internet site
Message-Id: <87prsfjkwo.fsf@hacking.dk>
Winston75 <baptiste.fevre@gmail.com> writes:
>> > no errors in my code, but not downloaded file on my disk .
>> > getstore ($url, $filename) not working? i don't know, any ideas?
>>
>> You don't test the return value of getstore(). This might tell you
>> something useful.
>
> thanks, sorry i'm newbie in perl, how to test return value of
> getstore()??
The documentation will tell you that the return value of getstore() is
the HTTP response code. Reading a bit more of the LWP::Simple
documentation will show that the module also exports two functions
is_success and is_error. Use one of these functions.
my $rc = getstore($url, $filename);
if ( is_success( $rc ) {
print "Done!\n";
} else {
print "Failed with response code $rc\n";
}
For an even better error message you can use the status_message()
function from the HTTP::Status module.
(I suspect that you get an 401 response code which is the
code for 'Unauthorized access')
//Makholm
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Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2008 18:09:35 +0200
From: Joost Diepenmaat <joost@zeekat.nl>
Subject: Re: pb download file on internet site
Message-Id: <87tzhrck00.fsf@zeekat.nl>
Winston75 <baptiste.fevre@gmail.com> writes:
> Ok :
>
> getstore ($url, $filename);
> print $!;
>
> Result --> bade file descriptor !!
The value of $! doesn't mean anything unless you know that the last IO
operation that occorred resulted in an error. You don't know that here.
Looking at the docs for LWP::Simple, seems you need something like this:
my $rc = getstore($url,$filename);
if (is_error($rc)) {
die "Some error occurred: $rc";
}
--
Joost Diepenmaat | blog: http://joost.zeekat.nl/ | work: http://zeekat.nl/
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Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2008 16:09:39 +0000
From: Peter Makholm <peter@makholm.net>
Subject: Re: pb download file on internet site
Message-Id: <87lk33jku4.fsf@hacking.dk>
Winston75 <baptiste.fevre@gmail.com> writes:
> getstore ($url, $filename);
> print $!;
Only assume that $! is relevant if the documentation says so, and even
when the documentation says that it is relevant it is almost always if
the called function signals an error in some way.
//Makholm
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Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2008 09:24:59 -0700 (PDT)
From: Winston75 <baptiste.fevre@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: pb download file on internet site
Message-Id: <dcc486b1-4019-4940-ad58-fbff3ebd43fe@e39g2000hsf.googlegroups.com>
On 24 avr, 18:09, Peter Makholm <pe...@makholm.net> wrote:
> Winston75 <baptiste.fe...@gmail.com> writes:
> > getstore ($url, $filename);
> > print $!;
>
> Only assume that $! is relevant if the documentation says so, and even
> when the documentation says that it is relevant it is almost always if
> the called function signals an error in some way.
>
> //Makholm
Ok thanks, my results :
downloading file1.zip....Failed with response code 404
downloading file2.zip....Failed with response code 404
downloading file3.zip....Failed with response code 404
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Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2008 18:30:24 +0100
From: RedGrittyBrick <RedGrittyBrick@SpamWeary.foo>
Subject: Re: pb download file on internet site
Message-Id: <RdudnYCbY-QlXo3VnZ2dnUVZ8vCdnZ2d@bt.com>
Winston75 wrote:
> On 24 avr, 18:09, Peter Makholm <pe...@makholm.net> wrote:
>> Winston75 <baptiste.fe...@gmail.com> writes:
>>> getstore ($url, $filename);
>>> print $!;
>> Only assume that $! is relevant if the documentation says so, and even
>> when the documentation says that it is relevant it is almost always if
>> the called function signals an error in some way.
>>
>> //Makholm
>
>
> Ok thanks, my results :
>
> downloading file1.zip....Failed with response code 404
> downloading file2.zip....Failed with response code 404
> downloading file3.zip....Failed with response code 404
404 means the URL is incorrect - there's no page with that path.
I'd change the print statement from
print "downloading $fileName....";
to
print "downloading $fileName from '$url' ....";
I expect that will identify the problem.
--
RGB
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Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2008 15:26:49 -0500
From: Chris Mattern <syscjm@sumire.gwu.edu>
Subject: Re: pb download file on internet site
Message-Id: <slrng11r89.lp2.syscjm@sumire.gwu.edu>
On 2008-04-24, Winston75 <baptiste.fevre@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 24 avr, 18:09, Peter Makholm <pe...@makholm.net> wrote:
>> Winston75 <baptiste.fe...@gmail.com> writes:
>> > getstore ($url, $filename);
>> > print $!;
>>
>> Only assume that $! is relevant if the documentation says so, and even
>> when the documentation says that it is relevant it is almost always if
>> the called function signals an error in some way.
>>
>> //Makholm
>
>
> Ok thanks, my results :
>
> downloading file1.zip....Failed with response code 404
> downloading file2.zip....Failed with response code 404
> downloading file3.zip....Failed with response code 404
"Quoth the server, 404.
That file, it don't exist no more."
--
Christopher Mattern
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Your noticing it has been noted
And will be reported to the authorities
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Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2008 00:44:32 -0700 (PDT)
From: Winston75 <baptiste.fevre@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: pb download file on internet site
Message-Id: <894caf32-1bb1-4747-a17e-abd678ba7c61@c65g2000hsa.googlegroups.com>
On 24 avr, 22:26, Chris Mattern <sys...@sumire.gwu.edu> wrote:
> On 2008-04-24, Winston75 <baptiste.fe...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>
>
>
> > On 24 avr, 18:09, Peter Makholm <pe...@makholm.net> wrote:
> >> Winston75 <baptiste.fe...@gmail.com> writes:
> >> > getstore ($url, $filename);
> >> > print $!;
>
> >> Only assume that $! is relevant if the documentation says so, and even
> >> when the documentation says that it is relevant it is almost always if
> >> the called function signals an error in some way.
>
> >> //Makholm
>
> > Ok thanks, =A0my results :
>
> > downloading file1.zip....Failed with response code 404
> > downloading file2.zip....Failed with response code 404
> > downloading file3.zip....Failed with response code 404
>
> "Quoth the server, 404.
> That file, it don't exist no more."
>
> --
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0Christopher Mattern
>
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So i don't understand how to download this file? my script is correct.
fyi, if i run this script with the direct link, i have an error 401 :
unauthorised access :
#!/usr/bin/perl
use LWP::Simple;
use strict;
use warnings;
use LWP::UserAgent;
use LWP::Simple;
use HTML::SimpleLinkExtor;
my $base=3D'https://username:password@www.mysitecom/index.shtml';
my $ua =3D LWP::UserAgent->new(agent =3D> 'Mozilla/4.73 [en] (X11; I;
Linux 2.2.16 i686; Nav)' );
my $req =3D HTTP::Request->new( GET =3D> "${base}" );
my $res =3D $ua->request($req);
die $res->status_line
if not $res->is_success;
#-- fetch the zip and save it
my $status =3D getstore("https://www.mysite/index.shtml",
"MyZipFile.zip");
if ( is_success($status) )
{
print "file downloaded correctly\n";
}
else
{
print "error downloading file: $status\n";
}
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Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2008 08:13:39 +0000
From: Peter Makholm <peter@makholm.net>
Subject: Re: pb download file on internet site
Message-Id: <87fxtajqrw.fsf@hacking.dk>
Winston75 <baptiste.fevre@gmail.com> writes:
> my $base='https://username:password@www.mysitecom/index.shtml';
> my $req = HTTP::Request->new( GET => "${base}" );
> my $res = $ua->request($req);
Here you request a page while authentificating with an username and a
password.
> #-- fetch the zip and save it
> my $status = getstore("https://www.mysite/index.shtml",
> "MyZipFile.zip");
Here you request the same page with no authentification.
//Makholm
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Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2008 19:43:06 +0530
From: "rajendra" <rajendra.prasad@in.bosch.com>
Subject: perl script to interact with PC port
Message-Id: <fung5j$kve$1@news4.fe.internet.bosch.com>
Hello,
Is there a way that I can interact with Personel computer's serial/parallel
ports using perl script?.
With Rgds,
Raj
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Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2008 15:15:31 +0100
From: RedGrittyBrick <RedGrittyBrick@SpamWeary.foo>
Subject: Re: perl script to interact with PC port
Message-Id: <480f4486$0$10639$fa0fcedb@news.zen.co.uk>
rajendra wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Is there a way that I can interact with Personel computer's serial/parallel
> ports using perl script?.
>
CPAN?
--
RGB
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Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2008 00:28:05 -0700 (PDT)
From: andy <nitindutt2005@gmail.com>
Subject: perl utility
Message-Id: <08215f47-a1d0-4e4e-8605-84872aad6bff@a23g2000hsc.googlegroups.com>
I want to get some idea about making a USB drive DOS bootable..in
windows....
I want to make a USB drive DOS bootable ..and it should be a windows
utility which I want to develop in perl.
Can anybody give me some idea about this ?
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Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2008 00:03:22 +0200
From: Martijn Lievaart <m@rtij.nl.invlalid>
Subject: Re: perl utility
Message-Id: <pan.2008.04.23.22.03.22@rtij.nl.invlalid>
On Wed, 23 Apr 2008 00:28:05 -0700, andy wrote:
> I want to get some idea about making a USB drive DOS bootable..in
> windows....
>
> I want to make a USB drive DOS bootable ..and it should be a windows
> utility which I want to develop in perl.
>
> Can anybody give me some idea about this ?
Not much perl related here. You need to learn about accessing raw drives,
parsing partition tables, installing bootrecords, etc, etc...
Once you know about these, writing the program in perl will be rather
trivial.
M4
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Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2008 00:09:14 +0200
From: Joost Diepenmaat <joost@zeekat.nl>
Subject: Re: perl utility
Message-Id: <878wz4nrzp.fsf@zeekat.nl>
Martijn Lievaart <m@rtij.nl.invlalid> writes:
> On Wed, 23 Apr 2008 00:28:05 -0700, andy wrote:
>
>> I want to get some idea about making a USB drive DOS bootable..in
>> windows....
>>
>> I want to make a USB drive DOS bootable ..and it should be a windows
>> utility which I want to develop in perl.
>>
>> Can anybody give me some idea about this ?
>
> Not much perl related here. You need to learn about accessing raw drives,
> parsing partition tables, installing bootrecords, etc, etc...
Pretty much agreed here. FYI, if you don't *have* to use windows, linux
is probably a much better choice; I wrote a few USB-bootable tools
starting from sysresccd: http://www.sysresccd.org/Main_Page
> Once you know about these, writing the program in perl will be rather
> trivial.
Also agreed.
--
Joost Diepenmaat | blog: http://joost.zeekat.nl/ | work: http://zeekat.nl/
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Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2008 01:17:25 -0500
From: "Ron Ford" <ron@nowhere.ford>
Subject: Re: PERL vs. Ruby
Message-Id: <1209103813_3127@news.newsgroups.com>
"kj" <socyl@987jk.com.invalid> wrote in message
news:dcgaab$cvo$1@reader2.panix.com...
> In <slrnden6a5.7fo.abigail@alexandra.abigail.nl> Abigail
> <abigail@abigail.nl> writes:
>
>>I'd go for Python if I were you.
>
> Why do you prefer Python over Ruby?
ruby has mats.
--
"Life in Lubbock, Texas, taught me two things: One is that God loves you
and you're going to burn in hell. The other is that sex is the most
awful, filthy thing on earth and you should save it for someone you love."
~~ Butch Hancock
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Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2008 14:41:33 -0700 (PDT)
From: "xahlee@gmail.com" <xahlee@gmail.com>
Subject: pop langs website ranking
Message-Id: <41fbaf27-a80b-402b-b406-c048a65a8643@b64g2000hsa.googlegroups.com>
In February, i spent few hours researching the popularity of some
computer language websites.
(The message can be found here:
http://xahlee.org/lang_traf/lang_sites.html
http://community.livejournal.com/lisp/42778.html
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.perl.misc/msg/59c87899c2668f4c
)
In that post, one question i puzzeled over is why PaulGraham.com's
traffic is surprisingly high, since the site doesn't seems to host
forums, computer lang documentation, or wiki type of thing, yet it is
ranked higher than perl.com, which actually host online forum, faq,
documentation, news etc. I wrote:
------------
paulgraham.com 48153 (lisp bigwig, but huh?)
Perl.com 49104
xahlee.org 80060 =E2=86=90 Me!
-------------
Compared to xahlee.org, it's a ranking difference about 32 thousand!
Today, while checking the web ranking site alexa.com, they seems to
have updated their ranking algorithm to be more fair, as opposed
basing it solely on a browser toolbar that users install.
So i went over to my essay and checked the ranking again of sites i
reported. I have spent only about 20 min to cursorily go thru the
sites i reported before. It appears that, in general, the order of
sites that i listed ROUGHLY remains unperturbed, but the specific
ranking ordinal has changed rather significantly. However, there's a
big surprise.
My website is now actually ranked higher than PaulGraham.com !
LOL. Paul Graham? Bah humbug. Painters =3D=3D Hackers? Fuck ya ass. Arc?
Eat shit and die.
PS: not having no confidence of myself, but i note that xahlee.org is
now marginally ranked higher than perl.com and perl.org, both of which
host forum/blog/wiki, news, docs, etc., while my website don't do any
of these and is all static html pages.
For those unflagging, alternative web ranking site is http://ww.quantcast.co=
m/
=2E
I'll be doing some research sometimes soon on this.
Xah
xah@xahlee.org
=E2=88=91 http://xahlee.org/
=E2=98=84
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Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2008 22:24:41 +0000
From: Cor Gest <cor@clsnet.nl>
Subject: Re: pop langs website ranking
Message-Id: <873apda5p2.fsf@atthis.clsnet.nl>
Some entity, AKA "xahlee@gmail.com" <xahlee@gmail.com> wrote this mindboggling stuff:
(selectively-snipped)
> My website is now actually ranked higher than PaulGraham.com !
well well, so your site is more popular.
You can make it even more popular, you know.
Just rename some lame article about how to make a kitty-litter
into mytinypussy.html and your hitrate will become astronomical.
Cor
--
Mijn Tools zijn zo Modern dat ze allemaal eindigen op "saurus"
SPAM DELENDA EST http://www.clsnet.nl/mail.php
Spamipuku rules the spamwave
(defvar My-Computer '((OS . "GNU/Emacs") (IPL . "GNU/Linux")))
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Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2008 19:02:52 -0700 (PDT)
From: Paul McGuire <ptmcg@austin.rr.com>
Subject: Re: pop langs website ranking
Message-Id: <315e13cc-3d21-4f2f-8503-835ea79069e2@x35g2000hsb.googlegroups.com>
On Apr 22, 4:41=A0pm, "xah...@gmail.com" <xah...@gmail.com> wrote:
> In February, i spent few hours researching the popularity of some
> computer language websites.
>
I seem to recall this exact same post from *last* February.
> I'll be doing some research sometimes soon on this.
>
=2E.. and no "research" was *ever* posted!
"Posting" is not the same as "contributing".
-- Paul
HATE. LET ME TELL
YOU HOW MUCH I'VE
COME TO HATE YOU
SINCE I BEGAN TO
LIVE. THERE ARE 387.44
MILLION MILES OF
PRINTED CIRCUITS IN
WAFER THIN LAYERS
THAT FILL MY
COMPLEX. IF THE
WORD HATE WAS
ENGRAVED ON EACH
NANOANGSTROM OF
THOSE HUNDREDS OF
MILLIONS OF MILES IT
WOULD NOT EQUAL
ONE ONE-BILLIONTH
OF THE HATE I FEEL
AT THIS MICRO-INSTANT
FOR YOU. HATE. HATE.
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Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2008 22:02:52 -0500
From: "Gerry Ford" <gerry@nowhere.ford>
Subject: Re: pop langs website ranking
Message-Id: <1208919347_3071@news.newsgroups.com>
"Paul McGuire" <ptmcg@austin.rr.com> wrote in message
news:315e13cc-3d21-4f2f-8503-835ea79069e2@x35g2000hsb.googlegroups.com...
On Apr 22, 4:41 pm, "xah...@gmail.com" <xah...@gmail.com> wrote:
> In February, i spent few hours researching the popularity of some
> computer language websites.
>
I seem to recall this exact same post from *last* February.
--->I remember it too. Xah is quite the self-promoter. Massive
cross-posters don't have anything to say for me.
--
"Life in Lubbock, Texas, taught me two things: One is that God loves you
and you're going to burn in hell. The other is that sex is the most
awful, filthy thing on earth and you should save it for someone you love."
~~ Butch Hancock
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Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2008 23:56:34 -0400
From: Lew <lew@lewscanon.com>
Subject: Re: pop langs website ranking
Message-Id: <R4GdnTXpiKjvLpPVnZ2dnUVZ_vOdnZ2d@comcast.com>
Gerry Ford wrote:
> "Paul McGuire" <ptmcg@austin.rr.com> wrote in message
> news:315e13cc-3d21-4f2f-8503-835ea79069e2@x35g2000hsb.googlegroups.com...
> On Apr 22, 4:41 pm, "xah...@gmail.com" <xah...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> In February, i spent few hours researching the popularity of some
>> computer language websites.
>>
> I seem to recall this exact same post from *last* February.
>
> --->I remember it too. Xah is quite the self-promoter. Massive
> cross-posters don't have anything to say for me.
So don't do it.
--
Lew
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Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2008 04:07:31 GMT
From: Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid>
Subject: Re: pop langs website ranking
Message-Id: <q5dt04huu9ta6bnipp34kcs5ud7vltu0hr@4ax.com>
On Tue, 22 Apr 2008 14:41:33 -0700 (PDT), "xahlee@gmail.com"
<xahlee@gmail.com> wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted someone who said
:
> alexa
I was shocked at the detailed information Alexa (owned by Amzon.com)_
had about my website. I wrote them and asked how they got it. They
said volunteers use a special browsing tool that reports website
visits. They use that to generate the information.
I suppose then one way to bump your stats is to use the tool for
maintaining your own website.
The weakness of this approach is it is unusual group of people who
will voluntarily submit to having their usage spied on. These are not
a typical group or a large group.
Google has AdSense that will let them know in huge detail the hit
stats on a huge hunk of the web, but I don't know if they publish that
information anywhere.
--
Roedy Green Canadian Mind Products
The Java Glossary
http://mindprod.com
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