A side finding worth a bookmark:
Gallica 2000
http://gallica.bnf.fr/

"70000 documents num�ris�s, une navigation plus intuitive, cette
nouvelle version de Gallica constitue la mise � jour la plus
importante depuis la cr�ation de ce serveur en octobre 1997.

Le lecteur acc�de aujourd�hui � une biblioth�que multim�dia dont
les ressources documentaires s��tendent du Moyen �ge au d�but du
XXe si�cle.

Images fixes provenant des fonds prestigieux de la BnF, imprim�s
num�ris�s en mode image, documents en mode texte composent ici
l�une des plus importantes biblioth�ques num�riques sur le r�seau
mondial"

(Ah those arrogant French;)

"Pour effectuer des recherches plus complexes, utilisez l'interface
du catalogue des documents num�ris�s.

http://catalognum.bnf.fr:8091/html/i-frames.htm"

Lefaf

OK, let's work on this one

http://gallica.bnf.fr/Fonds_Mosaiques/03100020.htm

N� d'image: n� 008
Titre(s):
Biblioth�que Nationale : ancien H�tel Mazarin. N Atget : 4540.
1902-1903.
Photographiepositive sur papier albumin� d'apr�s n�gatif sur verre
au g�latinobromure ; 21,5 x 17 cm (�pr.). 
[Cote : BNF - Est. Eo 109b bte 4 ;n micr. T039534] \

javascript:NouvelleFenetre('03100020','0000008','C')
http://gallica.bnf.fr/scripts/mediator.exe?L=03100020&I=0000008&F=A = little one
http://gallica.bnf.fr/scripts/mediator.exe?L=03100020&I=0000008&F=C = big one

Displayed in a separate window, Netscape reports the following:
JPEG image 512x728 pixels
[[La] Biblioth�que nationale][[Image_fixe]]/Eug�ne Atget,photogr.

When saved, the name is: mediator.exe

Let's have a look...

Inside mediator.exe
FF D8 FF E0 00 10 4A 46 49 46 00 01 00 01 00 48 - ......JFIF.....H

a JPEG, with a wrapper? and a technology attached too!: 
LEAD Technologies Inc. V1.01

No wrapper - Just renaming mediator.exe to 0000008C.jpg works fine.

Just guessing:
-1- should be two subdirectories off from 03100020, called A and C, 
    and inside C is 0000008.
-2- Or, with the proper naming (as is meticulously demonstrated)
    everything could be within a big .zip file, with mediator.exe
    doing the extracting.

http://gallica.bnf.fr/scripts/
"Liste du r�pertoire refus�
 Le listage du contenu n'est pas autoris� pour ce r�pertoire virtuel."

Well. They are polite.

Anyway, question: Skulking around a public metropolis like this
one at gallica.bnf.fr, where are the backdoors and backstairs and
skeleton keys? This is off in the realm of sysadmin and "hacking"
(the newspaper definition) I suppose. But there must be a list of
mundane capers.

"How to gain root" in alltheweb got me 26 of them. One underground
stream will filter into another, and soon we'll have pure water, I
suppose.

Hmmm. at te bottom of your 478K list of nnnnnnnn.htm is
http://gallica.bnf.fr/Fonds_Mosaiques/Recup/ 

"... le site Gallica conna�t actuellement quelques perturbations."

That galliant should have his heart examined.
(cat burglers in the museum after dark... shhhh..)

Humphrey P            

Dictionnaires des Sciences politique & administrative

        

I was toying with the idea that using Webget-type-of-files-to-
download, could eventually leads us, little sneakers, to the
hidden [note hidden, not forbidden] trove.
So using the command:
wget -t 45 -a log.txt -A 0*.htm http://gallica.bnf.fr/
Could lead to any directory containing the raw meat gutter cats
love so much.
Unfortunatly after trying the following combination
0*
0*.
o*.htm
"o*.htm"
"o*.ht*"
o*.ht*
I simply get stuck no further that basic.htm
If you are still interested to the "where are the big pictures"
and want to try Webget a "SvD Recommended tm" tool with the manual
at
http://www.gnu.ai.mit.edu/manual/wget/
as altern.org doesn't let me in at the moment, be my mate on the
gutter, the last step to the roof, hopefully.


Yes, it is down. Well, I will spend some time reading the manual,
instead. And seeing what I'd grabbed from svd, before. Perhaps
webget was amongst all that. Then, again, webget is on GNU
somewhere. (svd will be proud of you! You're actually getting me
to do something with svd's treasures... )

Hmmm. jeff should be following this too. This is not an ftp entry,
but rather an http entry, asking the same questions. "Welp, here
we are in /pub/ foyer. What can we do next? Where is the employee
entrance? the delivery boy's entrance? the maintenance man's
entrance? the elevator?"

Can there be an unlisted door which isn't locked? I know there can
be an unsecured door behind a locked door. NY Times was like that
for a while. The Guardian. Different criteria for accessing the
site through an internal page than through the basic.htm default
page.

~
Cookie detour:

Perhaps the return visit, is expediated by a cookie. (Let me
think, was I paying attention, then?) Hmmm. The contents of a
cookie could be anything... I wonder if the cookie crunchers have
made a cookie museum with a little 3x5" card listing each one's
key features?

Hmmm, why one for NY Times, two for multimania, five for
mail.yahoo. Must be accessing the same cookie that many different
times.

How can that be secure? Surely I could ask a different computer
about someone else's cookie... let's see, there was a security
level about answering only the address which issued the cookie.
Then, there must be a cookie register to keep track of that.

And how can you get anywhere by denying cookies? Surely you need
one for Amazon.com. Perhaps some others are not necessary, and the
cookie pusher wiser by experience.

Anyway, once you were in, you didn't need to come in through the
default page. And I suspected that you never did need to come in
through the default page's signup process.

And, then, again, there are cookies and there are access rights,
and where you got it doesn't seem to matter much. PointCast seemed
to sign you up with WSJ, NYTimes, LATimes without much trouble.

~
Detour rejoins delivery boy knocking on front door:

But the concept isn't any different than bypassing the "name,
address, and personal information" page and going right to the ftp
address for the demo.zip you want to download.

0*
0*.
o*.htm
"o*.htm"
"o*.ht*"
o*.ht*

Hmmm. now, why that sequence is obvious to you - there must be a
closed set of possible which I hadn't known before. Well, it's
right there in the manual...RTFM: examples, robots,,,

~

Up on the rooftop, reindeer pause;
Out jumps good old Santa Claus.
Down through the chimbly ...
http://www.chebucto.ns.ca/~av359/xmas/carols/roof.html

~
.fr standard file formats.

Tried a .pdf Specifically, the get_page.pdf on page:
http://catalognum.bnf.fr:8091/i-full?585&1
Not a .pdf. Seems to be a prefix within...

.fr is a good deal like the old IBM and the new Microsoft: would
rather do it their way. Speak bnf.fr or die.

~

Webget, for the gnu of it... smarter than the average bot, hmm?

Humphrey P             


Miscellanea

http://www.walden.org/thoreau/writings/fruits/

http://www.users.cts.com/king/e/erikt/tolkien/as_rohan.htm

http://www.chez.com/ybilik/ (chroma)

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