encryption
Introduction to writing spiders and agents
passwords
Identifying your agent (or not)
Remember: your actions will appear in server log files!
$url = "http://www.someURL.com";
$agent = "My special spider v1.0";
$pageData = `\curl\curl -A $agent $url`
A typical HTTP_USER_AGENT looks like:
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win 9x 4.90; en-US; rv:1.0.0) Gecko/20020530
What about page referers?
Match POST/GET methods