manningda
October 4th, 2007, 10:21
All:
Couple of things to start with:
1. Extremely young programming experience -- Working very hard to understand all things, but please be prepared for questions that have obvious answers for a little while.
2. Best attempts have been made to review / search existing posts before starting my question. Apologies if I overlooked something and will gladly follow links back to exisitng data if necessay.
That said...
Have a client who is asking for some enhancements to a site that shares a very active linkage to another 3rd party site.
In reviewing the primary client's requirements and designing his new features we are seeing areas where an in depth understanding of the 3rd party site is becoming more and more critical.
3rd party designers and maintenance have left the picture and basically the site is not maintained. Likewise the client's access to the servers is not very staightforward and a little complicated.
Hoping the client can clear up the communication for some 1st hand access to the server and data, but in the meantime have some exepectations for results that have us researching RCE proceedures to try and answer some of our active questions.
Seems basic site mapping and diagramming are obvious 1st steps, but is there a particular method or focus within RCE that deals with remote review of HTML data? (Assuming HTML for now...)
So far all RCE guidance seem focused on scenarios where files, exe's, and the basic program is acceissible from an administrator level acess. In other words the engineer has the exe or some variation thereof that can be disceted, reviewed, etc.
What about when you're trying to understand what's happening behind the Curtain on a particular site?
All guidance will be deeply appreciated!!!
Couple of things to start with:
1. Extremely young programming experience -- Working very hard to understand all things, but please be prepared for questions that have obvious answers for a little while.
2. Best attempts have been made to review / search existing posts before starting my question. Apologies if I overlooked something and will gladly follow links back to exisitng data if necessay.
That said...
Have a client who is asking for some enhancements to a site that shares a very active linkage to another 3rd party site.

In reviewing the primary client's requirements and designing his new features we are seeing areas where an in depth understanding of the 3rd party site is becoming more and more critical.
3rd party designers and maintenance have left the picture and basically the site is not maintained. Likewise the client's access to the servers is not very staightforward and a little complicated.

Hoping the client can clear up the communication for some 1st hand access to the server and data, but in the meantime have some exepectations for results that have us researching RCE proceedures to try and answer some of our active questions.
Seems basic site mapping and diagramming are obvious 1st steps, but is there a particular method or focus within RCE that deals with remote review of HTML data? (Assuming HTML for now...)

So far all RCE guidance seem focused on scenarios where files, exe's, and the basic program is acceissible from an administrator level acess. In other words the engineer has the exe or some variation thereof that can be disceted, reviewed, etc.
What about when you're trying to understand what's happening behind the Curtain on a particular site?
All guidance will be deeply appreciated!!!