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help me to get data from another server

Posted: Wed Jun 06, 2007 10:48 pm
by randeepnath
hi all

Now am doing a bus tracking system. The client give me some website address like
http://konaware.com, http://teydo.com, http://thinkgeo.com, developer.sprint.com and tell me to take data from these servers. These sites helps us to get the current location points. But how i will take data from these sites..

Anybody did these type of projects before..
Anyone knows please help me find out a solution

Thanks and regards
Randeep

Posted: Wed Jun 06, 2007 10:50 pm
by feyd
You have to contact them.

Without written authorization you may endanger your business with lawsuits.

Posted: Thu Jun 07, 2007 2:33 am
by Maugrim_The_Reaper
Check if they supply web service APIs for the data you're looking for.

Posted: Thu Jun 07, 2007 3:47 am
by phpdevuk
you can try and read webpage content using things like curl or snoopy, but to be honest its more work than its worth and raises issues like feyd said, you are much better off contacting the websites and seeing if you can get something like an xml feed or even some kind of access to a database.