bots?

[Cheesemold]

what exactly are bots? and how would you make one? I think that they make your computer preform certain tasks, like going to certain websites, or filling out forms.

[liljim]

At 7/20/01 05:50 PM, cheesemold wrote: what exactly are bots? and how would you make one? I think that they make your computer preform certain tasks, like going to certain websites, or filling out forms.

Are you referring to robots.txt? If not, this question is more than generic.

[liljim]

At 7/20/01 07:31 PM, liljim wrote: Are you referring to robots.txt? If not, this question is more than generic.

Gah, I completely misread this last night.

Bots can perform a multitude of tasks, depending in what language they're written in / environment they're based in. You might want to look up shell scripting, or using crontab with cgi related scripts for performing website related tasks.

[Cheesemold]

umm, I ment a computer doing certain tasks, not a server. like a program that tells the computer to do a list of things, like go to website, fill out forum, submit and soforth.

[Pecos]

At 7/21/01 06:51 PM, cheesemold wrote: umm, I ment a computer doing certain tasks, not a server. like a program that tells the computer to do a list of things, like go to website, fill out forum, submit and soforth.

That's... kinda silly. No one does that. If you need your "bot" to execute stuff on your computer you can write shell scripts (for unix) or batch files (for windows).