oztivo site has new proxy (1 Viewer)

[James]

I got the following email from the admin of minnie.tuhs.org:

All,
I'm e-mailing you because you are either interested in Australian TV
guide data in XML format, or you have written a fetcher which retrieves
data from the xmlguide.pl script on minnie.tuhs.org.

Thanks to Stephen Lombard at digitronix.com.au, I've been able to set up
a cached version of the xmlguide.pl script on a machine with much more
bandwidth. The URL is http://xml.oztivo.net/cgi-bin/xmlguide.pl
This works *nearly* the same as the xmlguide.pl script on minnie (see
http://minnie.tuhs.org/twiki/bin/view/TVGuide/XMLGuideAPI).

Advantages: more bandwidth, no login required, supports HTTP gzip encoding.

Disadvantage: because the cache is anonymous, the script cannot guess what
TV stations a user wants. Therefore, the station= parameter MUST be provided.
Apart from that, the cache supports the other parameters as usual.

Data in the cache gets refreshed from minnie every 2 hours, and if minnie is
off-line, the cache stays intact.

I need some of the fetcher writers to test the cache, to ensure that it works
as required and to spot any issues or errors. I'm hoping that the majority
of fetchers will migrate over to the cached xmlguide.pl, and ease the
bandwidth load on minnie.

In the long run, if http://xml.oztivo.net/cgi-bin/xmlguide.pl also runs
out of bandwidth, we can set up some other caches, set the domain name
xml.oztivo.net to multiple IP addresses, and load balance that way.

Anyway, give me feedback if it works or doesn't work. If you know of any
other fetcher writers whom I missed sending this e-mail to, please pass it
on to them.

Thanks all,
Warren

I have made the required changes to the config file and they are now in the SVN. I have not tested all channels, but they should be the same as before.

The best thing is that login is no longer required. So this should make the setup easier.

Let me know if there are any problems.

Cheers,

/James

 

[Marcusb]

Thanks James, we all really appreciate how hard it is to keep up with the TV guide in Australia.

Cheers,

Marcus.

 

[Forgotten Illustrator]

Thanks and thanks for keeping on top of things to