RE: out there suggestion...

Hello,

You're not the only one :-)  Have you heard of WSDL (Web service
description language)?  Microsoft, Sun and IBM and are all piling loads
of money into XML based web services for websites (there's open source
stuff too I think) so that programs don't break when the interface
changes.  The WSDL is stored in a public directory (Like LDAP) so that
anyone can go and check out the interface and write programs for it.
There are cool programs for java/perl etc that allow you to auto
generate a set of classes (called stub classes) for the web services
interface so all you have to do is call the methods from within your
program and you can access all the data from the website.  You can
already get these XML interfaces for amazon.com and many others.  So,
once everyone has them, HTML changes won't break things like they do
now.

Benj..

>-----Original Message-----
>From: [email protected]
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>[email protected]] On Behalf Of E H R
>Sent: 17 December 2003 00:41
>To: [email protected]
>Subject: [gotmail] out there suggestion...
>
>I have a rather large collection of webmails(on different systems) and
tend
>to need a whole collection of daemons to run them all, now I was
looking at
>one of them(for mail.com) and I remembered that since the hotmail and
yahoo
>rebuilds, a lot of work was going on.  Now I know the other
>project(pywebmail) doesn't use the same language as gotmail(perl) but I
>thought it was interesting it used xml for storing webmail-server
>behaviour...  Could some kind of collaborative effort, perhaps using
those
>same xml files, be built, so that there is less duplication of effort
when
>hotmail et al decide to make our lives difficult?
>
>I've used fetchyahoo, gotmail, mrpostman, hotwayd, web2pop and
pywebmail(at
>least) so far, and I did notice that keeping up with the provides is
>probably the largest part of the update work.
>
>Am I the only one who sees a great idea in this ?
>
>
>
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