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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.

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