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Some sites specify in their Terms of Service (TOS) agreement that their site may not be
accessed programmatically with a bot. From a technical standpoint, they may do nothing to
actually prevent bots from accessing their site. They just reserve the right to take legal ac-
tion for accessing their site programmatically. If you have any questions about the legality of
accessing a particular site, always contact a lawyer. Such information is beyond the scope of
this topic.
Because of these reasons, the topic examples all make use of a special demonstration
site owned by Heaton Research. The pages, used by the topics bots, on the special web site
will never change. This special web site contains many pages and applications that simulate
many of the real-world web sites that bots may be written for. This web site can be accessed
at the following URL:
http://www.httprecipes.com/
If accessed with a browser, the recipe site will appear as Figure 1.1.
Figure 1.1: The HTTP Recipes Web Site
