Sorry, but it's not a big deal to handle the redirected page. You just receive the new location from the webserver and use the returned URL instead.
> I'm hoping someone from Valve can give me an answer about this, although > if anyone else knows of a workaround I'd appreciate it. > > I'm working on developing a web-based remote server management program > which interoperates with Steam Community for a number of features (like > tracking player and group activity and recording gameplay stats). I'm > using the XML profile feeds, since that's much easier to work with, but > there's a bit of an issue with using the 64-bit ID to access someone's > profile. Even with ?xml=1 on the end of the URL, going to a community > page via http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/? will redirect to the > non-XML version of that user's profile if they have assigned a > "friendly" URL to their account. For example, my profile feed would be > at http://steamcommunity.com/id/dave/?xml=1, and I'd expect > http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561197972662865/?xml=1 to display > the same page - but it doesn't. > > Detecting this redirect and compensating for it is a big pain and > increases the amount of work the server has to do every time the player > stats are refreshed. Would it be possible for the community pages to > have some more consistent behaviour, ie redirecting to the page with the > ?xml=1 parameter still present? > > (On an unrelated note, if anyone uses Windows to host their game servers > and would be interested in beta testing my app, please get in touch! I > plan to release this as an open-source application once it's finished, > but so far my testing is limited to one Windows 03 machine.) > > -Dave > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > _______________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, > please visit: > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds > _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds
