Thanks for the response Brendan,
I will see what I can get from the museum in New York, although it is
an effort getting information from them :)
The feeds I tried for this version were:
http://newsrss.bbc.co.uk/rss/newsonline_uk_edition/world/rss.xml
and
http://newsrss.bbc.co.uk/rss/newsonline_world_edition/front_page/rss.xml
Unfortunately I can't ascertain what error I get because I don't have
access to the PC there. I just know that nothing was being grabbed
and parsed when the request was being made. I will ask them though.
I'm guessing it's down to local conditions rather than at your end,
but what surprises me is that it worked for a few days then stopped
and after that no-one I asked in US could see it.
thanks for your consideration,
best wishes,
Jon
On 3 Mar 2006, at 10:04, Brendan Quinn wrote:
Hi Jon,
Nice piece! I'll have to check it out if I ever get out to Forest Hill
:-)
Can you tell us which actual feed you are requesting, what your user
agent string is, and what ISP you are coming through? I might be
able to
check out whether it is any at our end. It really should be fine
though,
the problem might be at your ISP or some firewall somewhere.
Also, what error message are you getting when the feed fails?
Another idea could be to try using feeds.bbc.co.uk/(...) instead of
www.bbc.co.uk/(...) Actually,. It would be great if you could all
start
doing this! It's nicer for our stats system and gives us the
opportunity
to move the serving of our feeds to a different server setup in the
future.
Regards,
Brendan.
-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jon Thomson
Sent: 03 March 2006 09:19
To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk
Subject: Re: [backstage] Hourly news flashes via IM
Hi there,
I'm a newbie to the list but have used backstage for a while
to power an artwork called decorative newsfeeds:
http://www.thomson-craighead.net/docs/decnewsf.html
http://www.thomson-craighead.net/docs/decnewsffh.html
Here's the deal though. I am exhibiting it in New York State
at the moment and it ran for a few days then was blocked.
As far a I can tell friends in Chicago, San Francisco and New
York couldn't see it either unless they looked 'in browser
and at our server' which made me think it wasn't an
individual block --the piece certainly makes no more demands
on bbc rss than any news ticker would.
I switched to 'world_edition' after speaking with someone at
BBC but still no joy. In the end I had to set up a proxy and
forward the news to the installation via our webserver in UK
I was wondering though if anyone had a reasonable explanation
for why they should be blocked in the states? Even
'world_edition' it would seem. It happens also to be running
in Sweden now just fine too.
Idle curiosity really but thanks in advance,
best wishes,
Jon Thomson
On 3 Mar 2006, at 00:40, Kirk Northrop wrote:
Nick B wrote:
You obviously fixed it. I then left as every hour was too annoying.
Can I get an update when I want ... e.g I want every 3
hours between
7am and 12am...
Just a thought. Other than that, quite okay, it started
working the
last few days.
Indeed, works fine(ish) here too, but hourly is a bit much ;)
--
From the North, this is Kirk
www.noisetosignal.org
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