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Re:Show HN: WP Detective – Show what theme and plugins a Wor... by codeaken on Friday April 14, 2017 @07:47PM (#14118371)
Yes that is correct. We could attempt to detect all plugins by pinging known files but that would involve indexing all available free plugins and doing around 40,000 HTTP request on the site you want to check ;) Glad you like it!
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Re:Show HN: WP Detective – Show what theme and plugins a Wor... by notgood on Friday April 14, 2017 @11:31PM (#14119213)
Not really, indexing the top 100 most popular plugins would be enough, and you don't have to ping all files of each one, a single file for each one would be enough (so 100 request).
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Re:Show HN: WP Detective – Show what theme and plugins a Wor... by robjan on Saturday April 15, 2017 @08:06AM (#14120424)
I would still question the legality of that. It's akin to running a port scan on the top x number of ports.
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Re:Show HN: WP Detective – Show what theme and plugins a Wor... by notgood on Tuesday April 18, 2017 @01:11AM (#14136632)
Everything is illegal if you are oppressive enough.
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