have problem in developing a crawler when websites use _dopostback in their page ource

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I am writing a crawler...I encounter a problem...how should I find the content of the page when websites are using _dopostback for their pagination?

Is there anyway to have access the source page of the next/prev page when using _dopostback

I really stuck and dont have any idea

Thank you very much for your help in advance

Posted 16-Jun-10 6:18am

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Dimitri Witkowski · Answer 1 · 2010-06-16T06:59:00

As you are developing a crawler, you should never send POST requests, that means that you will not be able to access pages that have navigation only using _doPostBack.
Typically webmasters add xml sitemaps that contain links to pages of the site:
http://www.xml-sitemaps.com/about-sitemaps.html[^]
you can make use of them.