[SGVLUG] Polling Web Sites

Robert Leyva mrflash818 at geophile.net
Wed Nov 28 10:01:29 PST 2007


That sounds like a design change or addition to a site.

Allow people to download a form, then just upload the completed form
securely.

Another process would then read in the form's data, and process. It would
either be 'realtime' at submission, or submissions could be aggregated,
then processed in batches.

That would be my humble opinions on it.

For you to work with a site that doesn't have such functionality, the best
alternative I can think of would be to keep a browser session with the
page open, fill it out at your leisure (leaving the PC on... hours, days,
weeks?), then do copy/paste to an active session when you are ready to
order.


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> bb.odenthal at gmail.com writes:
>
>> Of course, using the --no-check-certificate option does have its
>> security drawbacks.  Without it you'll have to get wget to trust the
>> certiaficate authority which can be a little cumbersome but well
>> worth the effort.  Good luck.
>
> What's really wanted is a general procedure for converting from
> connection-based security such as SSL to message-based security such
> as PGP, without any loss of security.  It's deeply irritating that
> sites try to impose real-time communication in the first place, when
> the situation would be better served by exchange of thoughtful
> messages.  But given that they do, there's a want for converting from
> one to the other.  Slow folks like me want to be able to download a
> form and ponder it for a day or a week before filling it in and
> returning it.  Ideas?
>
> - --
>  John E. Kreznar jek at ininx.com 9F1148454619A5F08550 705961A47CC541AFEF13
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