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Subject: 
APIs for avid.cgi and rate.cgi (was: Re: ratings?)
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Date: 
Thu, 6 Apr 2000 00:27:46 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Matthew Miller writes:
  /news/avid.cgi
  /news/rate.cgi
...those have APIs (others don't).

Are those published APIs? If you could be so kind as to point me to
documentation, that'd be cool.

Somewhat so, but not ultra-formally...  Here's the first one...

   http://www.lugnet.com/admin/general/?n=5304
   http://www.lugnet.com/news/raw.cgi?lugnet.admin.general:5304

I'm digging for the second one.  (I might not've posted it yet...but in the
absense of that it's safe enough for the time being to look at the HTML form
and emulate what it does, using HTTP POST and setting your cookie.)

--Todd



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  Re: APIs for avid.cgi and rate.cgi (was: Re: ratings?)
 
(...) Good, 'cause that's what I'm doing. *grin* (25 years ago, 6-Apr-00, to lugnet.admin.general)

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(...) I think if I had to resort to that, I'd only do it when the article was called up. That would take less bandwidth and CPU than using a GUI web browser.... Definitely not ideal, though. (...) Are those published APIs? If you could be so kind as (...) (25 years ago, 6-Apr-00, to lugnet.admin.general)

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