Robots, libwww and dart.
Posted 2005-03-08-0040
It has been a little quiet on the coding front lately, mainly thanks to GK and writing my proposal for my Masters project (which I will write about soon). But I do have a little news.
Dart is currently on the back-burner. I am thinking about rewriting the code intersection code and some of the rendering code. It is a big change, and I don't want to do it. So I've given up on dart for a bit, if I get some inspiration I'll work on it again.
Haven't done much TP coding either, because mithro's been too busy to work out protocol details. I have started to convert tpserver-cpp to TP03 though, and will probably work on libtpproto-cpp to thread-safe it and add TP03 support sometime soon (maybe April).
I am currently sitting on an idea that requires a webbot (web crawler, robot, whatever). So I have started to hack up one, using libwww from W3C. While at first glance it appears to be exactly what I'm after, the library has a very odd interface - a pseudo c++ - and the documentation sucks. After beating my head against it for 2 whole days, I've decided that it really isn't workable for what I want it for. So I guess my bot will have it's own URL parser and HTTP lib. Fun. At least it will be a little more transparent and easier to use. The bot is GPL, but I will not be destributing it till I have some plans settled.