Well, yes this is ok, BUT...there is a big legal notice in the html when
you do it..as below:-
<WARNING>
<!--
// *** LEGAL WARNING! ***
//
// IF YOU ARE READING THIS, YOU MAY BE CONSIDERING EXTRACTING RATE
DATA FROM XE.COM.
// THIS IS A VIOLATION OF THE LEGAL TERMS OF USE. DATA EXCTRACTION
IS NOT PERMITTED.
// REDISTRIBUTION OF THIS DATA IS PROHIBTED, AND ALL USE OF IT IS
STRICTLY GOVERNED
// BY THE LEGAL TERMS OF USE AGREEMENT LOCATED AT:
// http://www.xe.com/legal/
// IF YOU NEED CURRENCY DATA FOR COMMERCIAL PURPOSES, WE CAN PROVIDE
IT.
// FOR MORE INFORMATION, PLEASE SEE: http://www.xe.com/dfs/
//
// WE CAN AND DO PURSUE LEGAL ACTION AGAINST VIOLATORS OF THE TERMS
OF USE AGREEMENT.
//
// -->
</WARNING>
I might give this a miss I think :-D
Jeremy
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Jeremy,
Try this recipe if it suits your purpose:
"call http://www.xe.com/ucc/convert.cgi with a METHOD=POST with the
following variables set: Amount, From, To".
NB: If you used WorldPay, your app can fetch a basket of up-to-date
currency rates from them at will, e.g. daily.
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> Actually, I found a very cunning way to do this.
> I found a site where you can download an XML file of the NZ$'s rate.
> Unfortunitly, it goes back to 1994 or something (881KB) , but when its
> downloaded, I let the parsing happend so I end up with just the
> values, and I know how many values there are, so I jump to the end
> one, and thats the latest value, then I just do the maths from there.
> I am just using the "MSXML2.DOMDocument" object in an ASP page which
> is where I want to use it, and it seems to work just fine !
>
> BUT, this is prob. not ideal, so if anyone know of any site as per my
> original question, I would still like to hear.
>
> Thanks, Jeremy
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> Sent: Wednesday, 22 December 2004 22:29
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: [DUG-Offtopic] currency onverters
>
>
> Hi All.
> I am interested to know if anyone has seen a currency converter that
> you can pass a value to and the currency to convert to and from, that
> returns the converted amount? What I am looking at is (sorry this is
> via a web page), passing the info required, then having that come back
> converted so I can put it into a variable that then populated some
> data into another webpage.
>
> the idea is, person comes to the website, then they select the item to
> purchase, then the page passes the value to a converter script
> somewhere, which returns the value, this value is passed to another
> page, and then used on that page.
>
> the idea is, show NZ $$ prices, but have it converted to US$ so that I
> dont have to wathc the news at night and then alter the prices on the
> webpage :-)
>
> Jeremy
>
>
cheers,
peter
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