>> accessing an arbitrary website programatically without going through a 
>> world of pain.
> 
> No, you can't access "arbitrary" websites that present HTML. Well, you 
> can, depending on what you want to do. Google does it all the time.

Uhuh. And how many PhDs work for Google?

> But 
> it's hard to get specific information out in an automated way. That's 
> why people invented HTTP-based APIs like SOAP.

Why would you base a protocol on HTTP?

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