| mike.h on Fri, 2 May 2003 11:06:04 -0400 |
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Jeff's right about this: my record returned in 7/10 second and contained the fields. In my professional opinion, this is excellent evidence that the claim that the fields are "not on disk" is false. Whether or not the city is bound by law to extract the information or provide it by another means is a legal issue, not a technical one, and OT. On Fri, 2003-05-02 at 09:11, Jeff Abrahamson wrote: > Guys, did you look at the city's web site? Here's the record for my > house: > > http://brtweb.phila.gov/accountDetails.aspx?an=6482004411 > > Try doing a few more queries. Note that > > (1) the response time is consistent with a DB backed site and, in > particular, not with a tape or off-line backed site > > (2) the EQID and GMA fields are displayed > > I think this is the crux of Ed's issue with the city: if the data is > online, he'd like it. If it's not online, how is their site serving > it? > > He's not debating public policy with them: this was established by the > city and the state in law. He's debating a simple technical point: > they claim they can't give him public data because it doesn't exist in > a form in which they can give it to him. He claims that this is > manifestly not so, witness the database they are running that serves > that information. > > -- > Jeff > > Jeff Abrahamson <http://www.purple.com/jeff/> > GPG fingerprint: 1A1A BA95 D082 A558 A276 63C6 16BF 8C4C 0D1D AE4B -- -mike.h _________________ mike.h@acm.org mike.h@stemik.com __________________________________________ Democracy is the worst form of government; except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time. -Winston Churchill __________________________________________ GnuPG public key: http://www.stemik.com/~mike.h/mike.h.asc Attachment:
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