h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

ah, then I've been reading out of date information.

I don't want to put a damper on things, but is there really any point? The Post only comes out once a week. The Mozilla sidebar is useful, but I'd probably only use it on Thursdays. Besides which isn't <./>ThePost</.> the best place to go if you want to see the headlines.

I agree. If (or even when) The Post gets around to being more up to date, then I think we shall definately do rss feeds. At the moment though, I too can't really see the point.

The sidebar is handy, but doesn't really have any great advantage, yet. Seeing as it's still in development I don't even know if it works properly yet.

We've got other bars we're working on though...

it would be nice thought if when I started up my browser on a Thursday and my homepage loaded I had a nice list of all the new Post articles - I just pointed out RSS as an option worth looking at.

As I understand it for RSS 0.91+, 15 is the default number of headlines sent if the request doesn’t specify a number (you can request all)

Well, if you want the code that grabs the articles, you're more than welcome to a copy of it.

I would be interested in having a copy of it
Are you releasing the code under GPL?

Wasn't intending to, but I'll happily stick it up somewhere for downloading.

http://www.h2g2post.co.uk/mozilla/post.zip

here you go, one single php file that opens a tunnel to the beeb servers and grabs the Post code in, strips it and outputs the article links. It works, enjoy.

ha ha ha...