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From: woody@woodyware.com (John Woodstock)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Crawling the web..
Date: Tue, 19 Nov 1996 01:32:25 GMT
Organization: Woodyware Software, Inc.
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gpalmer@mutara.noc.webspan.net (Gary Palmer) wrote:

>In article <115_9611170835@usbbs.com>,
>	john.woodstock@usbbs.com (John Woodstock) writes:
>> Hello All!

>> I'm looking for a tool that I can open a specific port and then send
>> a message out, flip to receive and then record what comes back.  I
>> want this to be able to scan an entire range of addresses..  I want
>> to usse this to scan within my company to see who has web servers up
>> and what brand are they using..  Let me also explain, I'm not a very
>> good C programmer, so another higher level language would be better.

>Try the `expect' port (ports/lang/expect).

Downloading it as we speak..