HTTP Programming Recipes for Java Bots

The book covers the following topics: examining the structure of HTTP requests, monitoring the packets being transferred between a web server and web browser, executing simple HTTP requests, using HTTPS, accessing data from a variety of HTML sources, interacting with HTML form, handling cookies and sessions, explaining the effects that JavaScript can have on a bot, explaining the effects that AJAX can have on a bot, introducing web services, creating bots that make use of RSS feeds, and others.

• Authors: Jeff Heaton
• Keywords: Bot, HTTP, Java, Search Engine