OpenEuphoria

Re: listfilter & mailbots

• Posted by Pete Lomax <petelomax at blueyonder.co.uk> Oct 16, 2005
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On Sat, 15 Oct 2005 16:50:04 -0700, Robert Craig
<guest at RapidEuphoria.com> wrote:

>I'm surprised that a Google search can deliver result URLs 
>that run CGI programs. I tend to doubt that automated harvesters
>of e-mail adresses would try to run CGI programs.
>They normally wouldn't know what parameters to supply to the
>CGI program.
Google appears to return search results from cached cgi searches,
which makes sense as it obviously searches normal pages from cache
(and probably a cache of previous searches...).

I've often seen google results which are literally year-old cgi runs.
One thing I have noticed is that if you try a 'proper' link and get
say a 404, or a clearly much-updated page, rather than say a server
unavailable, and then key back, and try the cache, you might get the
page you were looking for but you'd better save it there and then if
you ever want to see it again, as google will refresh it (because you
just accessed it, especially if from Opera) in the next few days.

Regards,
Pete