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Re: Getting currency rates
What does the program do if the web site is down?
On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 10:20 AM, Adam West <adamster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Michael, the issue is more on the CL. If I have a backup, it should be
> OK. Only once did this Xurrency site go down and that was bec. he had
> to re-up the domain charges. For that matter I have to check that the
> data is reasonably good, i.e. suppose the rate they send is absurd
> like 0. or if it is substantially less than the day before. Suppose
> the Canadian $ is currently 1.034, if tommorow it comes in as 50
> cents, that would probably be a problem.So i need a normalcy checker
> program as well, and that is with a paid service also.
>
> in the cl
>
> 1.00
> PGM
> 2.00 /* GOES TO WEB SITE [1]WWW.XURRENCY.COM AND PULLS RATES
> */
> 3.00 ADDLIBLE
> LIB(LIBHTTP)
> 4.00 MONMSG
> CPF0000
> 5.00 /* USDCONV IS FIRST BUILT IN PGM SO REMOVE IF
> EXISTS */
> 6.00 DLTF
> FILE(QTEMP/USDCONV)
> 7.00 MONMSG
> CPF0000
> 8.00 CALL PGM(OBRFORC) ( this is Craig's
> program that pulls those rates. )
>
> right here I need to monitor if there was some problem with getting
> the info from that web site. That's my question what system messages
> should I monitor for?
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Michael Ryan <michaelrtr@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: HTTPAPI and FTPAPI Projects <ftpapi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2008 9:39:31 AM
> Subject: Re: Getting currency rates
> Use a paid service. That's the problem with web stuff like that. Like
> anything else, money is a motivator. A company that's being paid to
> provide a service is more likely to have a reliable service.
> On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 9:30 AM, Adam West <[2]adamster@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> >
> > This situation could always happen again.
> >
> > What sort of Message should I monitor for in the CL? in case it
> > aborts, then I can take action or run a backup site.
> >
> > Thanks.
> > Adam
> > ----- Original Message ----
> > From: Adam West <[3]adamster@xxxxxxxxx>
> > To: HTTPAPI and FTPAPI Projects <[4]ftpapi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Sent: Thursday, August 28, 2008 2:01:20 PM
> > Subject: Re: Getting currency rates
> > Thank you, Scott. It does appear that it is back up. This raises
> the
> > question what do other places do for a backup to such a foreign
> > currency site? if it does down for whatever reason.
> >
> > Does any web site feed work with that code?
> > --- On Thu, 8/28/08, Scott Klement <[5]sk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > From: Scott Klement <[6]sk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Subject: Re: Getting currency rates
> > To: "HTTPAPI and FTPAPI Projects"
> <[7]ftpapi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Date: Thursday, August 28, 2008, 4:29 PM
> > I did some looking around...
> >
> > [1][8]xurrency.com's web site is down, but their domain name is not
> expired.
> >
> > It appears that the site is hosted by [2][9]http://www.hostgator.com
> -- which
> > is a company that provides web servers for anyone to use. You pay
> them,
> > and they provide you a web server that you can use to host your web
> site.
> >
> > It appears that [3][10]hostgator.com has suspended xurrency.com's
> service.
> > Hard to say why -- either xurrency.com is in the progress of moving
> to a
> > new site, or they stopped paying hostgator, or they broke some of
> > hostgator's usage rules... hard to know.
> >
> > At any rate, this is not a problem with HTTPAPI or your program.
> >
> >
> > Adam West wrote:
> >> OK when I try to go that web site I get that it's a suspended
> > account
> >> or something.
> >>
> >>
> >> so either they are down or we did't pay the fee to them.
> >
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> > References
> >
> > 1. [12]http://xurrency.com/
> > 2. [13]http://www.hostgator.com/
> > 3. [14]http://hostgator.com/
> > 4. [15]http://www.scottklement.com/mailman/listinfo/ftpapi
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> References
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> 1. http://www.XURRENCY.COM/
> 2. mailto:adamster@xxxxxxxxx
> 3. mailto:adamster@xxxxxxxxx
> 4. mailto:ftpapi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> 5. mailto:sk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> 6. mailto:sk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> 7. mailto:ftpapi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> 8. http://xurrency.com/
> 9. http://www.hostgator.com/
> 10. http://hostgator.com/
> 11. http://www.scottklement.com/mailman/listinfo/ftpapi
> 12. http://xurrency.com/
> 13. http://www.hostgator.com/
> 14. http://hostgator.com/
> 15. http://www.scottklement.com/mailman/listinfo/ftpapi
> 16. http://www.scottklement.com/mailman/listinfo/ftpapi
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