Rob,
Apologies if someone's already said this, but you should really consider
server-side caching: Only grab a new feed if the one you currently have
is "out of date" - otherwise just save and use the last one you had.
Makes all the difference!
Russ.
Rob Dunfey 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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