Problem with Server RSS Feed
By
blue_bandana,
Posted on: 2010-07-15 03:36 in ALL ACCESS Gameplay Technical Issues Bugs
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Originally Posted by blue_bandana
So this is not exactly a CoH issue, but more of website thing.
I've been playing around with the desktop widgets on Windows 7, and I found one that lets me import RSS feeds. So I poked around for some RSS feeds to follow, and remembered that the CoH servers had an "uptime" feed. Except not really. It's not a valid RSS file, at least not according to a couple validators. There's a News feed, but it doesn't include any server uptime information. Anyone have a way to get this feed to work properly in a XML reader? |
You're right, it isn't a RSS feed at all. It's an XML document, that's all, one following their own layout.
Unless you took a few steps to convert it into an RSS feed somehow it's not going to be importable by any RSS Reader I'm afraid, other than the fact both are in XML they aren't remotely in the same format.
Instead of screwing around with trying to convert XML into RSS, you could just use Cox Server Monitor, which is a dedicated gadget that monitors that feed. I wrote the original version quite a while back, and then Fleeting Whisper took that piece of crap and improved it.
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Originally Posted by ShadowNate
;_; ?!?! What the heck is wrong with you, my god, I have never been so confused in my life!
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Awesome, Kitsune. That works great. Thanks.
"We are looking into the possiblity of maybe someday thinking about maybe implementing something similar to this, in the future."
- Positron
OK instead of creating a new thread I thought I'd just revive this one with a question:
Is there a RSS feed / XML file that includes the EU Server states?
So this is not exactly a CoH issue, but more of website thing.
I've been playing around with the desktop widgets on Windows 7, and I found one that lets me import RSS feeds.
So I poked around for some RSS feeds to follow, and remembered that the CoH servers had an "uptime" feed.
Except not really. It's not a valid RSS file, at least not according to a couple validators.
There's a News feed, but it doesn't include any server uptime information.
Anyone have a way to get this feed to work properly in a XML reader?
"We are looking into the possiblity of maybe someday thinking about maybe implementing something similar to this, in the future."
- Positron