Have you tired doing this to redirected pages.. http://steamcommunity.com/id/dave?xml=1 remove the last forward slash??
Kind Regards Ollie C. Frrsh Sales: Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Support: Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> David Kellaway wrote: > I'm hoping someone from Valve can give me an answer about this, > although if anyone else knows of a workaround I'd appreciate it. > > I'm working on developing a web-based remote server management program > which interoperates with Steam Community for a number of features > (like tracking player and group activity and recording gameplay > stats). I'm using the XML profile feeds, since that's much easier to > work with, but there's a bit of an issue with using the 64-bit ID to > access someone's profile. Even with ?xml=1 on the end of the URL, > going to a community page via http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/? > will redirect to the non-XML version of that user's profile if they > have assigned a "friendly" URL to their account. For example, my > profile feed would be at http://steamcommunity.com/id/dave/?xml=1, and > I'd expect http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561197972662865/?xml=1 > to display the same page - but it doesn't. > > Detecting this redirect and compensating for it is a big pain and > increases the amount of work the server has to do every time the > player stats are refreshed. Would it be possible for the community > pages to have some more consistent behaviour, ie redirecting to the > page with the ?xml=1 parameter still present? > > (On an unrelated note, if anyone uses Windows to host their game > servers and would be interested in beta testing my app, please get in > touch! I plan to release this as an open-source application once it's > finished, but so far my testing is limited to one Windows 03 machine.) > > -Dave > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please > visit: > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds > _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds
