- From: Regis Boudin <regis@boudin.name>
- Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2008 12:13:09 -0000 (GMT)
- To: "Urs Holzer" <urs@andonyar.com>
- Cc: www-amaya@w3.org
On Wed, January 2, 2008 11:02, Urs Holzer wrote: > They want to prevent bots from harvesting email adresses and flooding > publicly editable resoures such as wiki sites. Perhaps the people who > write those bots use libwww (because it is really easy to use) and > don't care about the user agent header. Actually, wouldn't it be better to try and move away from libwww ? It looks pretty much unmaintained upstream, with the last official release over 5 years old and the last CVS commit 13 months ago. >From a Debian perspective, only 4 packages still use libwww, and its current maintainer announced his intention to ask for removal from the archive. His advice is to switch to libcurl, which seems to provide a much nicer to use API and is actively maintained. Obviously I am willing to do some work on this and provide patches. I might do it anyway for the debian package... Any comment ? Regis
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