>> 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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