[Xastir] Fetch Findu Trail

[Curt Mills, WE7U]

On Tue, 27 May 2003, Steve Dimse wrote:

> On 5/25/03 at 1:52 PM archer at eskimo.com (Curt Mills, WE7U) sent:
>
> >Yes, you are correct.  That data does not come out of the web pages
> >that we have access to, and Steve didn't want to create another one
> >that had the dates/times on it.
> >
> I don't remember being asked, but if I was, it must have been a very long time
> ago,

It was.  Perhaps 1 to 1.5 years ago.


> otherwise I would have told you about the time option in both raw.cgi and
> rawposit.cgi added about a year ago:
>
> http://www.findu.com/cgi-bin/raw.cgi?call=k4hg-8&time=1
> http://www.findu.com/cgi-bin/rawposit.cgi?call=k4hg-8&time=1

Woohoo!  That last one looks like something we could use quite
easily!  Too bad we're in code-freeze...  :-(

I'll go add that link to the feature request on the subject, and
we'll have that feature implemented shortly after our "stable"
release.  Thanks!


> >The only option we have is to do a direct MySQL query.  Since he took
> >away the privilege of doing anonymous queries, that's out too.  You
> >now have to have a MySQL login/password to get in that way.
> >
> And you asked for one when? Everyone that has asked for one has gotten one, all
> I need is to see examples of the query strings you are planning to send!

Problem is, I didn't want to add a feature into Xastir at the time
that would depend on yet another login/password requirement and
require more libraries to be linked in.  I wanted a more generic
feature that anybody would be able to use.  The web page setup
provided that, but didn't give us date/time for each posit.  Still
very useful data!  I use it quite a bit myself.

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