Sasa Slijepcevic, Abstract

A Programmable Agent for Internet Retrieval

In the last few years Internet has become the most valuable source of information. However, it is accompanied with great increase in the amount of data and time needed for its retrieval. One of the solutions of the problems mentioned lies in automatic fetching of the documents onto the local disk and the later off-line browsing through them. The program presented by this paper fetches the documents onto the local disk up to the depth specified by the input parameters, following hyperlinks. It also possesses the option of giving the number of parallel processes what improves multithreading of the application. Outcome of program is file structure in which each WWW server from which files have been retrieved has a specific directory. The directories contain files with the changed hyperlinks that point to the files on the local disk.

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