Automatic Recording for KiSS Hard Disk Recorders

X-Git-Url: http://wamblee.org/gitweb/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=crawler%2Fkiss%2Fdocs%2Fcontent%2Fxdocs%2Findex.xml;h=ec17243ec08d33b83224b95a246251186dea7e15;hb=620e583c56dba934abe39a75bd3888dbd13af72c;hp=02d1a4668fe6609e68ac1f56835925650c8876ef;hpb=78c80d39126d6774f26bce978bf2e421f5c3a8ab;p=utils diff --git a/crawler/kiss/docs/content/xdocs/index.xml b/crawler/kiss/docs/content/xdocs/index.xml index 02d1a466..ec17243e 100644 --- a/crawler/kiss/docs/content/xdocs/index.xml +++ b/crawler/kiss/docs/content/xdocs/index.xml @@ -20,7 +20,25 @@

- + + + KiSS makes regular updates to their site that sometimes require adaptations + to the crawler. If it stops working, check out the most recent version here. + +

+ Changelog +

+ 13-20 August 2006 +

+ There were several changes to the login procedure, requiring modifications to the crawler. +

The crawler now uses the 'Referer' header field correctly at login.
KiSS now uses hidden form fields in their login process which are now also handled correctly by the + crawler.

Overview @@ -238,7 +256,9 @@ The screen should show an overview of the last time it ran (if it ran before) as well as a button to run the crawler immediately. Also, the result of the last run can be viewed. - The crawler will run automatically every morning at 5 AM local time. + The crawler will run automatically every morning at 5 AM local time, + and will retry at 1 hour intervals in case of failure to retrieve + programme information.

@@ -261,6 +281,12 @@ task (e.g. cron on unix). For the web application this is preconfigured at 5AM.

+ + If you deploy the web application today, it will run automatically + on the next (!) day. This even holds if you deploy the application + before 5AM in the morning. + +

Modifying the program to allow it to investigate tomorrow's programs instead is easy as well but not yet implemented.