Originally Posted by
Steph3n
That much is clear. With the data there, anything they did was subject to scrape, if they block IPs, they start using other IPs, VPNs etc to still scrape it. Making a bit of a war to keep things running properly. Screen scrapes can easily get out of hand, especially when they are sloppy code. I've seen it to impact entire networks, making me have to take serious action to stop it, but I won't go there right now, it is however, a major cost to continue this war.
I have some solutions on making it available without being subject to scrape, or need to login, but I am not in their IT and not going to offer it up.
Would I rather they had a replacement in place before disabling this? YES!
Originally Posted by
holtju2
Yeah. The KVS had been screen scraping but I thought that EF would have received the info through GSD apparently that was not the case.
You are making big assumptions. When AA pulled X/R inventory from EF, AA noted that it was being pulled from all channels, only one of which was EF. EF could have had a sanctioned connection to get the award data, but had that pulled as well since UA was removing the data from the UA website. The feed could have been powered by UA.com and when one was turned off so was the other to maintain parity (to our detriment).
As a scientist would say, correlation does not imply causation.