RSS Feed for Beta Patches

[oktane]

Go here for new RSS Feed: http://forums.bistudio.com/showthrea...=1#post2278417

[Snake Man]

Thanks, this is very handy.

[[KH]Jman]

Suggestion.
Why not use:

http://www.arma2.com/beta-patch.php

instead of your own page:

http://www.506th-pir.org/scripts/beta-patch.php.htm

that way it will keep the feed up to date.

[oktane]

Suggestion.
Why not use:

http://www.arma2.com/beta-patch.php

instead of your own page:

http://www.506th-pir.org/scripts/beta-patch.php.htm

that way it will keep the feed up to date.

Wow, snarky aren't you!

I was trying not to pound bis's servers when I was coding the part that scrapes BIS's page, so i saved a local cache of the file, which I forgot to remove late last night. I suspected something was going on with BIS's page because after so many refreshes, it would serve blank on me. I will have to implement a caching mechanism tonight after work. (the log files are already cached of course, since they are ftp'd) I put it back to the proper url now to scrape the data from. Also i'll work on getting the datestamp from the ftp and put it on the XML item.

Edit: the blank pages were caused by me having too short of a timeout value on the curl fetch.

[.kju [PvPscene]]

cheers

[cm]

awesome. Thanks!

[[KH]Jman]

Don't appear to intentionally be snarky, I was just getting to the point

Nice job oktane gg.

[Snake Man]

Hmm hey, is this now updated, ie working?

I was really happy to get RSS feed for the beta's, then I was really disappointed to see new beta in the forum but nothing on the RSS...

[oktane]

Give me a few hours to work the bugs out and implement a caching routine.. I think i'm only going to scrape the page 1/2 or once an hour at max and cache the result in the meantime. Right now its scraping bis's page every time so its really slow. (any calls to an external http host are normally slow in php)

Edit

OK, might want to delete your old messages and resubscribe if you had a bunch of dupes. First time writing an app that generates RSS. A friend said that his reader Thunderbird was making a lot of copies, I think the GUID tag I added should fix that. Also the changelog detection works again, if it doesn't have a changelog, that is noted. And dates are added. The dates represent the file modified date from the log on the ftp server. (which logically will be stamped when the automated build system generates that build)

Also, the page's final output is cached locally and only refreshed every 10 minutes.

[psychokilla]

I made your RSS into a Windows sidebar gadget (I actually just edited one I had already made for a forum I work on), it will work with either Windows Vista or Windows 7.

It would be great if someone could add an alternative link for it (Once it's all working right).



Download it here

It seems to take a while to show the entries, maybe something to do with your RSS feed. I stuck a couple of links in the settings page too (Control Panel, PMs and BiStudio).

EDIT: Seem to be having problems on it, are you blocking flood attempts? The gadget is set to refresh the list every 5 minuted, which I can change to 1 hour if needed. What's a safe refresh interval to use before being blocked? (You could always edit the gadget yourself if you want to).