Thomas Morton wrote:
Ah right ok :) I see - so your handling the headers & data directly.
I am, but only as a workaround. Ideally, I'd be able to use C#.NET's
built-in functionality - have a WebClient download the page, then pass
that into an XmlDocument. Instead, I have to manually check the headers
to make sure it's not redirecting, and if it is, see where it's
redirecting to, check to see if the URL is appending ?xml=1 as it should
(in case they fix this in the future), correct the URL, then pass *that*
to the WebClient object. This is both a lot of extra (unnecessary) code,
and a big performance hit if it ever has to process a large number of
IDs at one time.
Ronny Schedel wrote:
It's a better idea to split this into different tasks, use one reliable
class to retrieve Internet content and use your XmlDocument class to parse a
XML document like it was supposed to do.
I was doing this all along, I just forgot the XmlDocument isn't loading
stuff directly because I'm using a library I wrote a year ago (you pass
it a URL, it returns an XmlDocument object containing the XML data
hosted at that URL).
You should move this topic to the hlcoders mailing list.
I wasn't aware there even was a coding-specific list. Besides, this
isn't really related to coding or the engine, it's just a request that
Valve make the community site act a bit more consistently and logically.
I didn't intend it to turn into a huge programming thread :)
-Dave
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