From: Ian Jones <ian@dsl081-056-052.sfo1.dsl.speakeasy.net>
Subject: Re: google as a news server, redux
Date: Tue, 01 Jan 2002 17:43:32 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3advx4jej.fsf@mobile.lan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3ell936ij.fsf@wolfram.com>
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Bill White <billw@wolfram.com> writes:
>>> Google's TOS prohibits "offline searches", though they don't define
>>> what that means. But SZ's ability to use google probably means
>>> that google isn't blocking this on purpose (?). Any ideas what's
>>> causing this? Could it be that google blocks certain IP blocks for
>>> some reason? (I can search google via a webbrowser just fine from
>>> this IP).
>>
>> Emm, it seems that google checks useragent. Accidentally and
>> intentionally, I have 'useragent= Mozilla/4.7 [en] (Linux; I)' in my
>> .wgetrc.
>
> BINGO! Three cheers for ShengHuo ZHU!
Could you help a seemingly dense lurker get "W g" work for google? I
take it there is a variable to set the user-agent string, but I can't
find it.
Or is the suggestion to use an external package like wget the fix?
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-01-02 1:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-12-29 23:28 Bill White
2001-12-30 6:12 ` ShengHuo ZHU
2001-12-31 5:21 ` Bill White
2002-01-01 7:03 ` ShengHuo ZHU
2002-01-01 20:30 ` Ami Fischman
2002-01-02 0:19 ` ShengHuo ZHU
2002-01-02 0:53 ` Ami Fischman
2002-01-02 1:07 ` Bill White
2002-01-02 1:43 ` Ian Jones [this message]
2002-01-02 2:23 ` ShengHuo ZHU
2002-01-02 14:51 ` Randal L. Schwartz
2002-01-02 0:22 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
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