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We are testing webinator and have pages that use browserhawk extended information to test for the flash plugin. BrowserHawk sends a direct request to the browser for the information before the page is sent. This results in webinator reporting no text in the page. I've tried making the call from browserhawk when the session starts instead but this does not help. Any other ideas? This does not seem to affect google or some other search engines that we have been testing.

THanks,
Casey
clwinston AT mbayaq.org

Here is an example url:
http://www.montereybayaquarium.com/efc/ ... mm_cam.asp

I am not using the plugins but I know that it is the browserhawk component becouse if I take it out Webinator has no problem with the page. I'll look in to the plugins. We are using the free copy until we finish testing, are the plugins included?

Thanks,
Casey
clwinston AT mbayaq.org

Browserhawk is largely a javascript thing so it requires the javascript plugin. Javascript and file format plugins are separate items to buy. See the webinator main page for details.

BrowserHawk makes a seperate request to the browser for some types of information like flash or Quicktime plugins. Otherwise it is alot of either javascript or request parsing. I'm going to use some javascript code for the flash detect...just not as convenient as Browserhawk but will not mess up the indexer.

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