Yep if you can cache or database the calls, then great. If not, well the
way the BBC infrastructure is set-up, we are supplying a cached copy
anyway. I expect we will tell you if it gets out of hand.
Cheers
Ian
Richard Lockwood wrote:
Why not database the data the first time it's grabbed in a time period
of your choice - per hour or per day maybe. Then it's far fewer requests.
On this I run a cron job every morning:
http://www.sdldev.co.uk/weather/map_big.asp
Cheers,
R.
On Feb 7, 2008 3:45 PM, Rob Dunfey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote:
Hi,
I'm writing an application that displays weather at various
locations throughout the world on a digital globe, similar to
Google Earth. I use the BBC Weather GeoRSS feeds to grab the
weather info for each location, this involves making a web request
for each of the 278 locations I display on the globe. I would
like to share this app with people but for each person i share it
with, another 278 requests are made. Is this considered
acceptable behavior? If 200 people used this application just
once, that would be in excess of 55,000 hits? Is this acceptable?
All the best,
Rob
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