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    Chapter 19. Web Programming > Advanced Web Clients

    19.3. Advanced Web Clients

    Web browsers are basic Web clients. They are used primarily for searching and downloading documents from the Web. Advanced clients of the Web are those applications which do more than download single documents from the Internet.

    One example of an advanced Web client is a crawler (a.k.a. spider, robot). These are programs which explore and download pages from the Internet for different reasons, some of which include:


      

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