"Fusker" can be a verb, a noun that describes a technology for the web, or a noun that describes the output web page of that technology. The World Wide Web (commonly shortened to the Web) is a system of interlinked Hypertext documents accessed via the Internet. Output is the term denoting either an exit or changes which exit a System and which activate/modify a Process. A web page or webpage is a resource of information that is suitable for the World Wide Web and can be accessed through a Web browser. As a verb, "to fusker" is to identify a range of images to a fusker script that returns a web page that displays all of the images within the range. An image (from Latin imago) or picture is an artifact usually two-dimensional that has a similar appearance to some subject &mdashusually "Scripting" redirects here For other uses see Script.
For example, if you go to a fusker web page's form and enter the text http://www. example. com/images/pic[1-16]. jpg, the fusker technology would produce a page that displays all sixteen images in that range, from http://www. example. com/images/pic1. jpg through http://www. example. com/images/pic16. jpg. It is also possible to use lists of words by writing http://www. example. com/images/{small,medium,big}. jpg which will produce three urls, each with one word from the bracketed list. The web page is then presented to the person who did the fusker, and can also be saved on the fusker web server so that other people may view it.
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Fusker implementations
In a sense, the fusker technology extracts images from their original locations and displays them in a new web page. Each image is thus extracted, or separated, from any surrounding information that the provider of the image may have wanted, like solicitations for services. Still, the images are not copied by the fusker technology; the new page that the fusker technology produces instructs the browser to retrieve each image from its host web server and display it in the context of the new page.
Many server-side implementations of the Fusker technology are available on the web. Server-side refers to operations that are performed by the server in a Client-server relationship in Computer networking.
Controversy
Visitors to a fusker website frequently see copyrighted pornographic images that have been separated from their intended context, which is usually a web-page-based advertisement for an adult site; the original page usually has a gallery of thumbnail images that are representative of the site's offerings. Pornography or porn is the explicit depiction of Sexual subject matter with the sole intention of sexually exciting the viewer Understandably, any fusker that displays copyrighted images generally upsets the people who are hosting the images, because the fusker is displaying those images outside of the intended context. This is also known as hot-linking. Inline linking (also known as hotlinking, leeching, piggy-backing, direct linking, offsite image grabs and bandwidth theft
Some web site administrators have implemented technology of their own to prevent their images from being "fuskered". This is usually done by checking the referer field in the request header or requiring that the user logs in. The referer, or HTTP referer, identifies from the point of view of an Internet Webpage or resource the address of the webpage (commonly the URL [1]
The fusker technology includes a mechanism for reporting fuskers that contain illegal content.
Since fusker scripts simply output HTML containing images located on the original server, site administrators will notice their bandwidth usage increase, especially if it were a popular fusker site. HTML, an initialism of HyperText Markup Language, is the predominant Markup language for Web pages It provides a means to describe the structure
Etymology
"Fusker" is a Danish term which originally meant a person covertly doing work outside the official guilds. Danish ( d̥ænsɡ̊ is one of the North Germanic languages (also called Scandinavian languages a sub-group of the Germanic branch of the It came into Danish around 1700 from German pfuscher, meaning a dabbler, botcher, or charlatan. The German language (de ''Deutsch'') is a West Germanic language and one of the world's major languages. Later it came to mean someone cheating (for example using company resources for personal benefit) or alternately doing shoddy work. [2]
In English it nearly exclusively refers to the meaning described in this article. English is a West Germanic language originating in England and is the First language for most people in the United Kingdom, the United States
History
The original fusker technology was created by Mikkel Carthag Tuek, who made the Perl CGI script as a work-alike of the UNIX/Linux cURL tool, specifically the "url-globbing" functionality of this. NOTES FOR EDITORS "Perl" is not an acronym (read the "Name" section below The Common Gateway Interface ( CGI) is a standard protocol for interfacing external Application software with an information server cURL is a Command line tool for transferring files with URL syntax. It was first publicized in late 2001 and was removed two years later, as the bandwidth usage became too unwieldy and the author preferred to avoid commercializing the site with advertisements. Year 2001 ( MMI) was a Common year starting on Monday according to the Gregorian calendar. The original script also had a bug that would occasionally cause memory overflows. Several versions are available under a Perl license on Tuek's homepage.
The idea has been continued by others and ported to other scripting languages. There also exist JavaScript [3] (www.fusker.com.br) and Python [4] implementations. JavaScript is a Scripting language most often used for Client-side web development Python is a general-purpose High-level programming language. Its design philosophy emphasizes programmer productivity and code readability
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