Friday, October 24, 2008

More than one way to Replay

When we built RSS Replay we ran into an interesting problem. RSS
Replay uses JavaScript (AJAX) to request and place content onto web
page layouts. But JavaScript has a same-origin rule that restricts
access to remote content to only other items from the same website.
We got around this in Replay by building proxy server-side scripts
that load and cache RSS content from remote sources. It works very
well for our needs.

Well the clever folks over at nb.io figured out a way to use CSS
import commands to capture RSS content. Interestingly, they still
require a server-side script to break large feeds into multiple small
chunks.

I guess there is more than one way to skin a cat.
http://nb.io/hacks/csshttprequest/

1 comment:

Ifra Yaseen said...

Hello!
I am very new to this. Can you guys help me out what it is all about?

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