WTF happened to the acid data base?

[MangaFish]

blackout's on there (use the wayback machine) But I'm being blocked by robots or something. Maybe a clevererer persanoid can gety in.

basically search engines only catalogue information that the webdevelopers give them permission to. The permissions are specified in a file called robots.txt. the wayback site only saves the information which search engines have permission to spider. for some reason boa has the portal blocked - hence the error.

even without that error i doubt such a site would work though simply because the forum is built using server side scripting and a database - neither of which web-surfers (which is all wayback basically is) have direct access to. so without the direct access, it's impractical to effectively save message board forum data

does any of that make sense?

[xes]

Kind off,but it is 8am and I've just had a big spliff,so I might be teling fibs :cheese:

[Barnz]

basically search engines only catalogue information that the webdevelopers give them permission to. The permissions are specified in a file called robots.txt. the wayback site only saves the information which search engines have permission to spider. for some reason boa has the portal blocked - hence the error.

even without that error i doubt such a site would work though simply because the forum is built using server side scripting and a database - neither of which web-surfers (which is all wayback basically is) have direct access to. so without the direct access, it's impractical to effectively save message board forum data

does any of that make sense?

The site would work!

If it can be viewed in the web browser it can be saved. Or even more so if a request can be made to the server and it sends back a response it can be saved.

Also what is the Acid database? Is that just like a Forum category?

[dan the acid man]

the acid database was a post si the sigh made detailing all the releases and artist names used in acid techno, well most of them anyway

[Barnz]

the acid database was a post si the sigh made detailing all the releases and artist names used in acid techno, well most of them anyway

Somebody should of made a proper database to store them in.

[dan the acid man]

Somebody should of made a proper database to store them in.

they did, its just they're only available to admins, which makes sense.

[MangaFish]

The site would work!

If it can be viewed in the web browser it can be saved. Or even more so if a request can be made to the server and it sends back a response it can be saved.

Also what is the Acid database? Is that just like a Forum category?

no mate it wouldnt work - not in practice anyway. when you view the page in a webbrowser it's a virtual page (as it's the same PHP script page that generates every thread) and it's rewritten every new thread you open. that can't work in practice on a site like the one disgussed.

[Barnz]

no mate it wouldnt work - not in practice anyway. when you view the page in a webbrowser it's a virtual page (as it's the same PHP script page that generates every thread) and it's rewritten every new thread you open. that can't work in practice on a site like the one disgussed.

What do you mean? It can store the page as it was at a specific moment in time. Fair enough if someone adds a new post to the site then that new post will not be reflected in the stored version (unless it restores the page again). Why wouldnt it work?