[mdlug] Background task accessing web pages

[Brian]

I would bet they use cookies to identify users so I doubt having another
browser getting the free browsing cookie would help much.  I would think the
best automatic way around it would be a small proxy program that would
automatically "click the ad" and store any cookie data that came back.  Or
you could look for flaws like hardcoded expiration times.

On Jan 17, 2010 12:04 PM, "Carl T. Miller" <carl at carltm.com> wrote:

David McMillan wrote: > So, my thought: how hard could it be to start a
background task > (maybe...
I would use wget for something like this.  Set up a temporary
directory somewhere since it will create a lot of files in a
lot of subdirectories.  It should be rather easy to do if there
are no cookies or sessions.  Check the man page for wget.  Just
reuse the same cookie file if needed.

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