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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 11/29/2012 10:52 PM, True Friend
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<div dir="ltr"><font size="4"><font face="tahoma,sans-serif"><font
size="4">I have <font size="4">a related qu<font size="4">estion:<font
size="4"> News websites (these days) a<font size="4">re
using AJAX, this hides <font size="4">links while
<font size="4">simultaneously generates them via
javascript. See <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.nation.com.pk/pakistan-news-newspaper-daily-english-online/opinions/editorials">this
page</a> for example<font size="4">. <font
size="4">Apparently th<font size="4">is is
the archive page for all Editorials on
the newspaper website, <font size="4">but
only a few are <font size="4">shown,
and user has to click on "</font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font><font
size="4"><font face="tahoma,sans-serif"><font size="4"><font
size="4"><font size="4"><font size="4"><font size="4"><font
size="4"><font size="4"><font size="4"><font
size="4"><font size="4"><font size="4"><font
size="4"><a moz-do-not-send="true"><span>Show
more news<font size="4">" <font
size="4">under the given
stories to get a few more
previous editori<font
size="4">als. <font
size="4">Would a<font
size="4">n html
crawler be able to
bypass this and get
all links hidden on
this page?<br>
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It is possible. Certainly, anyone with enough programming skill
could write an HTML crawler that can give an AJAX website the
information it's looking for. In practice, it may be so obfuscated
that it's not worth the time and effort.<br>
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Angus B. Grieve-Smith
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:grvsmth@panix.com">grvsmth@panix.com</a></pre>
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