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Old May 31, 2012 | 7:26 am
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Jan@BRU
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KVS Tool -- source sites?

All,
this is may be a little OT, but KVS is a tool many milage run pros seem to use.

I was wondering, if anybody knew, what some of the more obscure underlying sites are that KVS is scraping.

Since they request user's own usernames and passwords for subscription only sites (like ANA's StarAlliance award availability etc.), I assume that the other sites are public (may be I'm wrong) and could be accessed via the internet independtly of KVS -- not withstanding the comfort that the KVS "1990's" interface offers.

So: e.g. the fare listing sites (Dotres and what not): is there a way to know, which site is being scraped to get the list of published fares and is it possible to access it via http?

Many thanks for any insight.

All the best,

Jan
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