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Vasco Costa vasco.costa at gmx.com
Sat Feb 27 14:39:45 GMT 2021
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On Sat, Feb 27, 2021 at 11:16:46AM +0100, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:
the third). You still have to write the crawler and, speaking for
experience, this is not a one week-end project. At the beginning, it
is, you have a prototype running quite rapidly but then, in the real
world, a lot of problems happen. My "favorite" is capsules accepting
TCP, completing the TLS handshake, but then not replying to queries
but there are also endless redirections and other "funny" stuff.
Indeed. I remember many years ago writing a crawler for the web andfinding similar challenges, despite initially getting excited with abarebones prototype with just a few lines of code. It's not easy tohandle all the exceptions to the regular behaviour.
growth of the geminispace (47 capsules added yesterday, a new record,
including one in catalan, apparently the first one) requires than you
plan in advance: what works today won't in a few months.
Thank you so much Stéphane for Lupa and the statistics you provide, it'san incredibly interesting way to see the evolution of Gemini:
gemini://gemini.bortzmeyer.org/software/lupa/stats.gmi
--Vasco Costa
AKA gluon. Enthusiastic about computers, motorsports, science,technology, travelling and TV series. Yes I'm a bit of a geek.
Gemini: gemini://gluonspace.com/Gopher: gopher://gopher.geeksphere.tk/