So that the reading of this
manual is available to all we will try to use a consistent vocabulary throughout
this manual. This small glossary is here to help you understand the concepts
that you will manipulate in the context of the use of MailWalker. Also, do not
hesitate to refer you as needed.
Agent
Also known as user-agent. It
is, by restriction, the identifier that a client sends the web server that is
being explored.
For more details, please visit
the
user-agent page on Wikipedia.
Black-list
Specifying list items not
taken into account. In MailWalker, this blacklist is used to specify the
websites that you want to exclude a priori routes and explorations.
HTML entity
Named or numeric code used
to display characters regardless of the encoding of the document. Regularly used
in web pages to display special characters or accents.
For more details, please visit
the HTML entity page on Wikipedia.
Site exploration
Action is to find and follow
all the links of a website. The exploration of a site allows you to visit.
Regular expression
Also known expression, the
regular expression is a pattern describing a string in a formal manner.
MailWalker is based on regular expressions engine to find what they want in a
web page, among others.
For more details, please visit
the regular expression page on Wikipedia.
HTML
Textual format for defining,
structuring and presenting web pages. This is the "language" in which the pages
and web sites are written.
For more details, please visit
the HTML page on Wikipedia.
IFrame
Technology, part of the HTML
specification, allowing to "embedded" a web page into another website in anothe ....
Hard link
This means a link pointing
directly to the resource (web page) that reference.
External link
Means a hyperlink that
points to a page from another website.
For more details, please visit
the
hyperlink page on Wikipedia.
Internal link
Means a hyperlink that
points to another page of the same website.
For more details, please visit
the hyperlink page on Wikipedia.
Sites Walking
Action is to find and track
all external links of a website.
Redirect link
As opposed to hard-link,
this means a link that redirects the browser to an escrow. A redirection link
can be done by setting up a web server, scripting forwarding (server-side or
client-side ),...
RFC 822
Normative document
specifying the syntax of an email address.
For fans of the genre, you
can view
RFC 822 on I.E.T.F site.