DAZ Documentation Center Issues

Taoz

FrankTheTank said:

They're really useful for finding out what morphs are included with a product before purchasing. Which aren't often specififed in detail in the product descriptions, sometimes a PA will just say like "includes 28 morphs" or some cryptic thing. And as such, it makes the difference between buying immediately and going to my wishlist sometimes. Without the Readme I have to guess or ask in the forums and hope I get an answer from the PA. And if that doesn't happen it means less money for PAs and Daz. So the ReadMe's are really important to me. I try to check them on nearly everything that should have morphs. The exception would be well known PAs who already have a stellar reputation. 

If you can't access the ReadMe page, you can try downloading the PDF via direct link (it may or may not work, depending on the type of server error).  Just replace [SKU] in the link here with the actual SKU: 

http://docs.daz3d.com/doku.php/public/read_me/index/[SKU]/start?do=export_pdf

e.g. http://docs.daz3d.com/doku.php/public/read_me/index/112933/start?do=export_pdf

Also works for missing SKU categories on the Product Index pages like 110000 and higher.

The server is HTTP only, so your browser or AV program may complain that the site or file is insecure. 

Richard Haseltine

Taoz said:

FrankTheTank said:

They're really useful for finding out what morphs are included with a product before purchasing. Which aren't often specififed in detail in the product descriptions, sometimes a PA will just say like "includes 28 morphs" or some cryptic thing. And as such, it makes the difference between buying immediately and going to my wishlist sometimes. Without the Readme I have to guess or ask in the forums and hope I get an answer from the PA. And if that doesn't happen it means less money for PAs and Daz. So the ReadMe's are really important to me. I try to check them on nearly everything that should have morphs. The exception would be well known PAs who already have a stellar reputation. 

If you can't access the ReadMe page, you can try downloading the PDF via direct link (it may or may not work, depending on the type of server error).  Just replace [SKU] in the link here with the actual SKU: 

http://docs.daz3d.com/doku.php/public/read_me/index/[SKU]/start?do=export_pdf

e.g. http://docs.daz3d.com/doku.php/public/read_me/index/112933/start?do=export_pdf

Also works for missing SKU categories on the Product Index pages like 110000 and higher.

The server is HTTP only, so your browser or AV program may complain that the site or file is insecure. 

Again, this is a feature that gets abused by scrapers so it may well be blocked off in future.

Taoz

Richard Haseltine said:

Taoz said:

FrankTheTank said:

They're really useful for finding out what morphs are included with a product before purchasing. Which aren't often specififed in detail in the product descriptions, sometimes a PA will just say like "includes 28 morphs" or some cryptic thing. And as such, it makes the difference between buying immediately and going to my wishlist sometimes. Without the Readme I have to guess or ask in the forums and hope I get an answer from the PA. And if that doesn't happen it means less money for PAs and Daz. So the ReadMe's are really important to me. I try to check them on nearly everything that should have morphs. The exception would be well known PAs who already have a stellar reputation. 

If you can't access the ReadMe page, you can try downloading the PDF via direct link (it may or may not work, depending on the type of server error).  Just replace [SKU] in the link here with the actual SKU: 

http://docs.daz3d.com/doku.php/public/read_me/index/[SKU]/start?do=export_pdf

e.g. http://docs.daz3d.com/doku.php/public/read_me/index/112933/start?do=export_pdf

Also works for missing SKU categories on the Product Index pages like 110000 and higher.

The server is HTTP only, so your browser or AV program may complain that the site or file is insecure. 

Again, this is a feature that gets abused by scrapers so it may well be blocked off in future.

Well I'm not aware of anyone else who are scraping the DAZ site or how or why they may do it, but I can say that the DAZ Product Manager is intentionally designed, among others using strong encryption, so that it can't be used or tampered with by pirates or others to collect data from the DAZ site in any way.  Only users with a DAZ account can download data with it, and only for products they have purchased.

Richard Haseltine

Don't forget that the PDF is generated each time, and if people can and do batch-download that is a string of requests stacking up to push out othe requests, such as basic page-loads.

csaa

Taoz said:

Well I'm not aware of anyone else who are scraping the DAZ site or how or why they may do it, but I can say that the DAZ Product Manager is intentionally designed, among others using strong encryption, so that it can't be used or tampered with by pirates or others to collect data from the DAZ site in any way.  Only users with a DAZ account can download data with it, and only for products they have purchased.

The DIM connections aside, it's interesting to see the year end report about Internet traffic compiled by Cloudflare, Daz's content delivery network (CDN) provider.  Lots of data to absorb, all in wonderful colors and interactive modes.

Bots driven by AI, mostly for training, appear prominently on Cloudflare's radar (here's a breakdown of bots). While they don't report activity per website -- maybe Cloudflare does, but only on a need-to-know basis for their customers, not the public -- no doubt the Daz website falls into the great big bucket they manage.

Cheers!

hjake

 

If you can't access the ReadMe page, you can try downloading the PDF via direct link (it may or may not work, depending on the type of server error).  Just replace [SKU] in the link here with the actual SKU: 

http://docs.daz3d.com/doku.php/public/read_me/index/[SKU]/start?do=export_pdf

e.g. http://docs.daz3d.com/doku.php/public/read_me/index/112933/start?do=export_pdf

Also works for missing SKU categories on the Product Index pages like 110000 and higher.

The server is HTTP only, so your browser or AV program may complain that the site or file is insecure. 

 

Thank you that is very helpful considering how many times the webpage is down when I need to access a particular readme page.

Ofcourse the best solution is UPDATE the webserver and webpages to a modern format.