MOMspider is now publicly available
Roy T. Fielding (fielding@simplon.ICS.UCI.EDU)
Wed, 10 Aug 1994 04:29:41 -0700
Hello all,
This is just going out to people who I know have been waiting for this
release for much-too-long-a-time. I have done my best to make the software
as robust as possible and have tested it under a variety of conditions.
Note that this is not an alpha or beta release -- the software is robust
enough to be marketable (even though I am just giving it away).
The only fault that still remains is that the documentation is rather
paltry. That should be fixed in a future patch.
MOMspider is a bit unlike other Web spiders/robots in that it is not
engaged in resource discovery and thus generates very little load on
remote servers. However, please let me know immediately if anyone
starts running it in an irresponsible manner.
Please do not rebroadcast this message to the high-profile mailing
lists and especially not to netnews. If everything looks like it
is going fine, I will send a general announcement to www-talk and,
later, to comp.infosystems.www.providers.
Please do let me know if you have any problems installing/testing it
or you find the documentation incomprehensible or lacking some important
bit. The earlier I can catch any problems, the more likely they will
be solved before the great unwashed masses get their hands on it. ;-)
MOMspider can be retrieved via HTTP from
http://www.ics.uci.edu/WebSoft/MOMspider/
or by anonymous ftp from
ftp://liege.ics.uci.edu/pub/arcadia/MOMspider/
See the file INSTALL.txt for notes on how to install the program
and other info. In particular, note that I would like to receive a copy
of the initial test results from sites that are using MOMspider.
....Roy Fielding ICS Grad Student, University of California, Irvine USA
(fielding@ics.uci.edu)
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