is scraping the right choice?
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we've got several different printers from several different manufacturers in our office that i need to try to retreive the machince specific info(serial, mac, ip, pageCount, etc) thru a rich-client. All printers have an installed/firmware webserver that displays all this info...and my hopes were to find a way to contact these devices and grab this info. I wasn't sure if there was an easier way to do this other than parse the html to get the info....('cause) the problem with doing that is that since they are all different manufacturers the format for the html is all different. So the question becomes how can i retrieve this info from the devices (does anyone know how to comunicate to the printer via a printer language{not sure what that would be} ?) :-D :laugh: ;p :^) :sigh:
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we've got several different printers from several different manufacturers in our office that i need to try to retreive the machince specific info(serial, mac, ip, pageCount, etc) thru a rich-client. All printers have an installed/firmware webserver that displays all this info...and my hopes were to find a way to contact these devices and grab this info. I wasn't sure if there was an easier way to do this other than parse the html to get the info....('cause) the problem with doing that is that since they are all different manufacturers the format for the html is all different. So the question becomes how can i retrieve this info from the devices (does anyone know how to comunicate to the printer via a printer language{not sure what that would be} ?) :-D :laugh: ;p :^) :sigh:
There's no standard for this, so scraping is the only option you have. Until the manufacturers get together and agree on an XML format to supply the information in, scraping, be it a web page or a telnet session, is all you've got. RageInTheMachine9532 "...a pungent, ghastly, stinky piece of cheese!" -- The Roaming Gnome
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There's no standard for this, so scraping is the only option you have. Until the manufacturers get together and agree on an XML format to supply the information in, scraping, be it a web page or a telnet session, is all you've got. RageInTheMachine9532 "...a pungent, ghastly, stinky piece of cheese!" -- The Roaming Gnome
thx :-D :laugh: ;p :^) :sigh:
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thx :-D :laugh: ;p :^) :sigh:
What is scrapping???
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What is scrapping???
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