> > 1) The data for the race about to start updates every (say) 15 > seconds, and the data for earlier and later races updates only every > (say) 5 minutes. There is no point for me to be hammering the server > with requests every 15 seconds for data for races after the upcoming
Try using an HTTP HEAD instruction instead to check if the data has changed since last time. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
