On Monday 14 May 2007 16:28, Kent Gibson wrote:
> I dunno where to go with the thing. After writing it
> yesterday I found out it wont work as a service (which
> was what I wanted), becuase javascript requires that
> the what you pass into Timeline.loadXML is located at
> the same server where the javascript is running.In
> other words you must serve your XML from the
> same server as the HTML comes from.
>
> I could return HTML instead but I am not sure what
> that will bring, I need to do something with the xml,
> no? I am open for any suggestions. I would like to
> make it more live.
>
> this how I intended it to work as a service, this is
> the url of the servlet:
> http://www.syndicatescape.com/timeproviderservlet
>
> add ?url=YOUR_FEED to the end of the url and you get
> XML.

I was thinking on the same lines. You need to have a proxy on the same 
server as the servlet through which the HTML and its related JavaScript 
files can be pulled. So you would do something like

http://service.server/timeproviderservlet?html=http://my.blog/page.html&feed=http://somewhere.else/feed.rss

The servlet would fetch the HTML and pass it through, possibly rewriting 
stuff in it on the way. When the HTML reached the browser is would 
generate a call back to

http://service.server/timeproviderservlet?feed=http://somewhere.else/feed.rss

at which point you'd parse and dispatch the feed.

Hope this helps

Simon

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