FWIW we wrote our own weather portlet using a feed from worldweatheronline.com, and it uses individual API keys. I think this approach is best as has been mentioned before, it's impossible to hide URLs or credentials in open source code.
Can Accuweather reinstate the feed until an appropriate solution is brought to bear? cheers, Steve On 11/11/2010, at 8:52 AM, Jonathan Markow wrote: > Unfortunately, if it's not international-friendly, then it's not really > viable for Jasig... > > -Jonathan > > On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 4:39 PM, Domazlicky, Eric <[email protected]> > wrote: > This isn't a very international-friendly suggestion, but I for one would > advocate using the National Digital Forecast Database Web Service: > > http://www.nws.noaa.gov/xml/ > > > Of course this only covers the United States, but this seems like a viable > non-commercial option. > > > > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Parker Grimes > Sent: Wednesday, November 10, 2010 9:16 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [uportal-dev] Important Weather Portlet Information > > > I just got off the phone with a representative from Accuweather. They were > generous enough to setup a weather feed specifically for the uPortal > community and that feed has driven the Weather Portlet that is bundled with > uPortal. Unfortunately, they discovered that someone outside higher ed has > gotten a hold of the the uPortal weather feed and has been using it in a > mobile phone app. They have seen a huge spike in traffic on the uportal feed > which violates the terms of use that we were given. They will be shutting it > down immediately. Before you get too upset, they reserved the right in their > terms of use (that is included in the Weather Portlet source distribution) to > discontinue the feed if they deemed necessary. > > > With that said, they still want to provide a data feed for the uPortal > community. We will just have to go about things differently. We can no longer > publish the data feed url in a publicly available place. I haven't quite > figured out how that will be accomplished and I am open to ideas. > > > > Parker Grimes > > Programmer Analyst Supervisor > > Information Technology Department > > Southern Utah University > > > -- > > > > You are currently subscribed to [email protected] as: > [email protected] > > > > To unsubscribe, change settings or access archives, see > http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/JSG/uportal-dev > -- > > You are currently subscribed to [email protected] as: > [email protected] > To unsubscribe, change settings or access archives, see > http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/JSG/uportal-dev > > -- > > You are currently subscribed to [email protected] as: > [email protected] > To unsubscribe, change settings or access archives, see > http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/JSG/uportal-dev -- You are currently subscribed to [email protected] as: [email protected] To unsubscribe, change settings or access archives, see http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/JSG/uportal-dev
