1) If this is a commercial site you are doing this for, you will need to contact cnn.com and ask them for permission to use their data. Otherwise you are opening yourself up to a lawsuit. Linking is ok, plagerism or flat out content stealing isn't. I think it was ticketmaster vs. some-little-po-dunk-operation that decided this. 2) As for a real answer. I think you will need to have an excutable go and get the cnn.com page every 15min or so and parse the thing. This sound more like a perl application than a java application. Or you want to check out the jakarta regexp library. jakarta.apache.org I think. --Angus Krishna Srinivasan wrote: > > I'm trying to incorporate newsfeed from an external site say CNN.com and > show the headlines on my site. > As news gets updated in CNN.com,my site should also > show the latest news. > > How do i accomplish this?Do i need to open a socket connection with the > external site or is there any other way to do it? > Any information will be of great help to me. > > Thanks in advance, =========================================================================== To unsubscribe: mailto [EMAIL PROTECTED] with body: "signoff JSP-INTEREST". Some relevant FAQs on JSP/Servlets can be found at: http://java.sun.com/products/jsp/faq.html http://www.esperanto.org.nz/jsp/jspfaq.html http://www.jguru.com/jguru/faq/faqpage.jsp?name=JSP http://www.jguru.com/jguru/faq/faqpage.jsp?name=Servlets
