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Cracking AJAX? Done yet?

• From: david.lyon@p...
• To: xml-dev@l...
• Date: Tue, 07 Nov 2006 19:28:24 -0600

List,

Since Ajax transfers xml data down the http pipe, is anybody aware of  
any http filters that can be used with ajax data to siphone the  
information out?

For example, some website sells computer parts and they are using  
ajax. In the old days one would just screenscrape and parse the html  
to get to the data. Now with ajax it's all going up-and-down the html  
pipe and not being seen.

The data should be there, somewhere hiding in the pipe somewhere.

So from the website, if we just click at the right spots, and filter  
the http for xml tags, then we should get the data right?

Maybe it can be done at the proxy server level?

Just curious? has anybody tried?


David

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