John

He didn't miss it, he snipped it -

Both.

without indicating that he'd done so.

When is the last time you explained why you quoted some stuff, but not other
parts ? whistle

But yes, I missed it - and again when I re-checked before I wrote that
reply. What Big al was referring to is probably this: "I find it great for
testing bookmarks to see if they work.". Somehow, even though I described a
bit of VBS doing what he posted there, I fully missed the link (no pun
intended) with this later "verifies the link of every bookmark" remark.

Big al: My apologies. You did say it and I did miss it. Twice. Shame on
me.

For example, one obscure ftp site asked for a username and password, which
FF had remembered, and the site then let me in

So it interfaces with FF itself (and other browsers) (or in FFs case,
accesses the databases directly) to retrieve those stored (and most likely
encrypted, and thus needed to be decrypted) credentials ? Quite a program.

On the other hand, what is the chance that the program saw the password
challenge and decided that that was enough to classify the website as being
alive ? Much easier. :-)

Regards,
Rudy Wieser