Wasn't really sure what forum would fit this best, eventually settled on this one due to the Dev Digest RSS feed threads being here.
I noticed a little while ago that the EU CoH website has an RSS feed for the server status. I thought it was a great idea (saves refreshing the status page a lot while waiting for servers to come back up after maintenance, your RSS aggregator will just 'ping' you when something changes in the feed). Unfortunately we didn't have that facility on the US servers so I wrote a quick PHP script to generate one from the server status page.
The feed updates once a minute max (as that's as fast as the server status page updates). If it's called again before a minute is up it'll just fire out a cached copy from my server. It's not so useful on some online aggregators like Google Reader since their system won't fetch the feed very often, a locally installed RSS reader or one you can force a refresh with is probably better.
This is really my first time experimenting with generating RSS feeds so if anyone more knowledgeable spots a potential issue with my feed data or anyone has a suggested improvement feel free to voice it.
Hopefully it won't just be me that finds this useful!
Wasn't really sure what forum would fit this best, eventually settled on this one due to the Dev Digest RSS feed threads being here.
I noticed a little while ago that the EU CoH website has an RSS feed for the server status. I thought it was a great idea (saves refreshing the status page a lot while waiting for servers to come back up after maintenance, your RSS aggregator will just 'ping' you when something changes in the feed). Unfortunately we didn't have that facility on the US servers so I wrote a quick PHP script to generate one from the server status page.
The feed updates once a minute max (as that's as fast as the server status page updates). If it's called again before a minute is up it'll just fire out a cached copy from my server. It's not so useful on some online aggregators like Google Reader since their system won't fetch the feed very often, a locally installed RSS reader or one you can force a refresh with is probably better.
This is really my first time experimenting with generating RSS feeds so if anyone more knowledgeable spots a potential issue with my feed data or anyone has a suggested improvement feel free to voice it.
Hopefully it won't just be me that finds this useful!
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