Comments on: Staying True to the Feed http://cias.rit.edu/~iv/blog/archives/180 Newsiversse :: Web Based Feed Sat, 11 Apr 2009 22:51:25 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.2 By: Brad coudriet http://cias.rit.edu/~iv/blog/archives/180/comment-page-1#comment-6 Brad coudriet Sat, 11 Apr 2009 22:51:25 +0000 http://cias.rit.edu/~iv/blog/?p=180#comment-6 How often are you refreshing your remote feeds? One of the reason our servers disable remote URL access is because it becomes very easy to create a script that can use the web server as a denial of service weapon. Instead of getting the feeds via php and the webserver I would use a periodic cron script via the Linux shell and grab all your feeds once every X minutes. Just my two cents. In this case I would use wget to get the remote feed, then use php on the webserver to read and parse the downloaded files. How often are you refreshing your remote feeds?
One of the reason our servers disable remote URL access is because it becomes very easy to create a script that can use the web server as a denial of service weapon.

Instead of getting the feeds via php and the webserver I would use a periodic cron script via the Linux shell and grab all your feeds once every X minutes. Just my two cents. In this case I would use wget to get the remote feed, then use php on the webserver to read and parse the downloaded files.

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