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by zeno (Friar) on Mar 31, 2003 at 08:25 UTC

    Thanks for your response. Your program has some notable improvements over mine:

    1. you use LWP::Simple's mirror instead of get. This is much more directly suited to the job. One weakness of my code is that it attempts to download the RDF feed every time a user visits the page, whereas I could use mirror to inexpensively check for updates and only download the new RDF feed if there are modifications.
    2. you also use LWP::Simple's is_success to check the success of the RDF feed download. This tool is directly applicable to the problem of not being able to receive the RDF feed, whereas mine is a bit jury-rigged.

    Now my only problem is finding RDF feeds in Catalan.

    Thanks again. I will incorporate your improvements into my program.

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    Zeno - Barcelona Perl Mongers http://barcelona.pm.org
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      were can i get your new version??
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