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A Brief History of this Project
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Early 1998
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The original goal of this project was to write an HTTP robot (aka Web
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crawler) that showed how many of the Web's documents actually used the
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HTTP and HTML META charset (text encoding) labels.
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The robot had to parse HTML to find embedded hyperlinks. As an aid in the
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development of the HTML parser, a "pretty printer" was written to display
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the results of the parsing using different colors for the different parts.
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From here it was a relatively small step to create the view.cgi tool that
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fetches and pretty-prints the document associated with a URI entered by
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the user.
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The proxy tool also used the HTTP fetching and HTML pretty-printing code
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to display the documents accessed by the user's browser.
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The link checker "link" and site downloader "grab" used the Web crawling
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code to do their thing.
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The other files in the project were small attempts to learn more about
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various Internet protocols.
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The view.cgi tool and robot results were shared with other members of
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Netscape's internationalization group.
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Feb 1, 2000
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The code was dubbed "Web Sniffer" and checked into the mozilla.org
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CVS repository. The view.cgi tool was made available on the Internet
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at mozilla.org.
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Sep 26, 2003
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It was reported that the view.cgi tool no longer worked. The server had
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been switched to Linux, but Web Sniffer had never been compiled on Linux,
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and it did not compile there. It was originally built on Solaris.
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Jan 30, 2004
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The server was configured to redirect to web-sniffer.net, a similar tool.
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