- From: Irene Vatton <vatton@inrialpes.fr>
- Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2008 14:19:25 +0100
- To: "Regis Boudin" <regis@boudin.name>
- Cc: "Urs Holzer" <urs@andonyar.com>, www-amaya@w3.org
On Wednesday 02 January 2008 13:13, Regis Boudin wrote: > 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 ? Oh yes, it will be great if we can move to libcurl. > > Regis -- Irène Vatton @ INRIA Rhône-Alpes
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