At 11:40 AM 7/17/2002 -0400, you wrote:

>We're looking into MANY enhancements to the RWI including layout, logic
>processing, error handling (e.g. rebuilding the page and populating the form
>with errors highlighted instead of simply saying "error" and forcing you to
>go back a page), and other tidbits.

Sounds great!  :)

>It's a big project though, and our timelines are currently unknown.  Since
>many resellers rely on the RWI to grab data [1] (many even automagically
>with Curl or LWP/SSLeay) we have to ensure we either do a slow transition or
>attempt to keep backwards compatability (which will make major updates
>difficult, but we'll work it out)

Ahh yeah.  Well, how about a leaving that one the way it is for this 
purpose and having a separate one for human consumption?  Very little 
additional work involved and you wouldn't have to worry about backwards 
compatibility on the "new" one.  In fact, make it extremely well known that 
the new interface should not be scripted against and would be done at their 
own risk.


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