From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/41367 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ian Jones Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: google as a news server, redux Date: Tue, 01 Jan 2002 17:43:32 -0800 Organization: Gnus Information Center Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: <2nk7v544p1.fsf@zsh.cs.rochester.edu> <2n7kr2v9hj.fsf@zsh.cs.rochester.edu> <818zbhu84p.fsf@zion.bpnetworks.com> <2nvgelr4di.fsf@zsh.cs.rochester.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035176773 5727 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 05:06:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 05:06:13 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: (qmail 26925 invoked from network); 2 Jan 2002 01:44:43 -0000 Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu (mail@129.7.128.13) by mastaler.com with SMTP; 2 Jan 2002 01:44:43 -0000 Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu ([129.7.128.10] ident=lists) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 16LaRh-0001VR-00; Tue, 01 Jan 2002 19:43:57 -0600 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Tue, 01 Jan 2002 19:43:49 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (qmailr@sclp3.sclp.com [209.196.61.66]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id TAA19624 for ; Tue, 1 Jan 2002 19:43:36 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: (qmail 26894 invoked by alias); 2 Jan 2002 01:43:38 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 26889 invoked from network); 2 Jan 2002 01:43:38 -0000 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org (HELO quimby2.netfonds.no) (195.204.10.66) by gnus.org with SMTP; 2 Jan 2002 01:43:38 -0000 Original-Received: from news by quimby2.netfonds.no with local (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 16LaRo-0004Fz-00 for ; Wed, 02 Jan 2002 02:44:04 +0100 Original-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Path: not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnus.ding Original-Lines: 31 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: dsl081-056-052.sfo1.dsl.speakeasy.net Original-X-Trace: quimby2.netfonds.no 1009935844 15524 64.81.56.52 (2 Jan 2002 01:44:04 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@quimby2.netfonds.no Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 2 Jan 2002 01:44:04 GMT X-Face: @kv_?=U,6IFmU70,o}5RGscRG;hr+V8>b$k(i"EJ,\$I53-Fi%1[|EudSgp}9j\.E.md-Oy 3olgxeA&d$~bQxqzB>kIC~:ven_U_ZbW)S6Rs}S Cancel-Lock: sha1:S0WaGklXC2IopC6joNT8HOk9Few= Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:41367 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:41367 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Bill White 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? -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Comment: Keeping the world safe for geeks. iD8DBQE8MmXEwBVKl/Nci0oRAn3LAKC30lxf233RUXm6rbHojv29X9Yf7gCeMzOH 3E5VFrJOjy1bMZH6sHTf/8w= =E9iQ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----