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Is there a way to make Webinator ignore images?
Posted: Mon Jun 21, 2010 6:39 pm
by lbneal
The bandwidth load on the target and the storage load on the walker is huge when all the useless images are downloaded during a walk.
How to stop downloading images while walking?
I have looked for such a method but failed to find it in the documentation.
Is there a way to make Webinator ignore images?
Posted: Mon Jun 21, 2010 9:59 pm
by mark
If you have "All extensions" turned on turn it off and specify only the extensions you want in the "Extensions" setting.
Is there a way to make Webinator ignore images?
Posted: Mon Jun 21, 2010 10:03 pm
by mark
Or you can add unwanted extensions to the exclusion list.
Or you can, if the webserver will respect it, set "Mime types" to only those you want instead of the default of */* which accepts everything. Some more common mime types:
text/html
text/plain
application/pdf
application/msword
The "application" ones won't be useful with the free version as it doesn't have the file formats plugin.
Is there a way to make Webinator ignore images?
Posted: Mon Jun 21, 2010 10:20 pm
by lbneal
Information appreciated I will give it a shot.
Is there a way to make Webinator ignore images?
Posted: Mon Jun 21, 2010 10:49 pm
by lbneal
No indication of success....
I tried:
text/html
text/plain
And Exclusions --
/cgi-bin
.jpg
.gif
~
No reported change in behavior...
Is there a way to make Webinator ignore images?
Posted: Tue Jun 22, 2010 10:42 am
by mark
If you're doing a refresh walk the exclusions won't affect pages already in the database. Use Profile Tools->List/Edit URLs to delete the unwanted URLs.
Or set rewalk type to New.