Final Thoughts
Now that you know how to write function interfaces to a web page (or in our case, a form), you can convert the data and functionality of any web page into something your programs can use easily in real time. Here are a few more things for you to consider.
Distributing Resources
A secondary benefit of creating a function interface to a webbot is that when a webbot uses a web page on another server as a resource, it allocates bandwidth and computational power across several computers. Since more resources are deployed, you can get more done in less time. You can use this technique to spread the burden of running complex webbots to more than one computer on your local or remote networks. This technique may also be used to make page requests ...
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