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Re: Getting currency rates

   Michael, the issue is more on the CL. If I have a backup, it should be
   OK. Only once did this Xurrency site go down and that was bec. he had
   to re-up the domain charges. For that matter I have to check that the
   data is reasonably good, i.e. suppose the rate they send is absurd
   like 0. or if it is substantially less than the day before. Suppose
   the Canadian $ is currently 1.034, if tommorow it comes in as 50
   cents, that would probably be a problem.So i need a normalcy checker
   program as well, and that is with a paid service also.

   in the cl

   1.00
   PGM
   2.00     /*    GOES TO WEB SITE [1]WWW.XURRENCY.COM AND PULLS RATES
   */
   3.00              ADDLIBLE
   LIB(LIBHTTP)
   4.00              MONMSG
   CPF0000
   5.00     /* USDCONV IS FIRST BUILT IN PGM SO REMOVE IF
   EXISTS            */
   6.00              DLTF
   FILE(QTEMP/USDCONV)
   7.00              MONMSG
   CPF0000
   8.00              CALL       PGM(OBRFORC)            ( this is Craig's
   program that pulls those rates. )

   right here I need to monitor if there was some problem with getting
   the info from that web site. That's my question what system messages
   should I monitor for?
   ----- Original Message ----
   From: Michael Ryan <michaelrtr@xxxxxxxxx>
   To: HTTPAPI and FTPAPI Projects <ftpapi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
   Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2008 9:39:31 AM
   Subject: Re: Getting currency rates
   Use a paid service. That's the problem with web stuff like that. Like
   anything else, money is a motivator. A company that's being paid to
   provide a service is more likely to have a reliable service.
   On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 9:30 AM, Adam West <[2]adamster@xxxxxxxxx>
   wrote:
   >
   >  This situation could always happen again.
   >
   >  What sort of Message should I monitor for in the CL? in case it
   >  aborts, then I can take action or run a backup site.
   >
   >  Thanks.
   >  Adam
   >  ----- Original Message ----
   >  From: Adam West <[3]adamster@xxxxxxxxx>
   >  To: HTTPAPI and FTPAPI Projects <[4]ftpapi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
   >  Sent: Thursday, August 28, 2008 2:01:20 PM
   >  Subject: Re: Getting currency rates
   >  Thank you, Scott. It does appear that it is back up. This raises
   the
   >  question what do other places do for a backup to such a foreign
   >  currency site? if it does down for whatever reason.
   >
   >  Does any web site feed work with that code?
   >  --- On Thu, 8/28/08, Scott Klement <[5]sk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
   >
   >    From: Scott Klement <[6]sk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
   >    Subject: Re: Getting currency rates
   >    To: "HTTPAPI and FTPAPI Projects"
   <[7]ftpapi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
   >    Date: Thursday, August 28, 2008, 4:29 PM
   > I did some looking around...
   >
   > [1][8]xurrency.com's web site is down, but their domain name is not
   expired.
   >
   > It appears that the site is hosted by [2][9]http://www.hostgator.com
   -- which
   > is a company that provides web servers for anyone to use.  You pay
   them,
   > and they provide you a web server that you can use to host your web
   site.
   >
   > It appears that [3][10]hostgator.com has suspended xurrency.com's
   service.
   > Hard to say why -- either xurrency.com is in the progress of moving
   to a
   > new site, or they stopped paying hostgator, or they broke some of
   > hostgator's usage rules...  hard to know.
   >
   > At any rate, this is not a problem with HTTPAPI or your program.
   >
   >
   > Adam West wrote:
   >>    OK when I try to go that web site I get that it's a suspended
   > account
   >>    or something.
   >>
   >>
   >>    so either they are down or we did't pay the fee to them.
   >
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   > References
   >
   >  1. [12]http://xurrency.com/
   >  2. [13]http://www.hostgator.com/
   >  3. [14]http://hostgator.com/
   >  4. [15]http://www.scottklement.com/mailman/listinfo/ftpapi
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References

   1. http://www.XURRENCY.COM/
   2. mailto:adamster@xxxxxxxxx
   3. mailto:adamster@xxxxxxxxx
   4. mailto:ftpapi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
   5. mailto:sk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
   6. mailto:sk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
   7. mailto:ftpapi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
   8. http://xurrency.com/
   9. http://www.hostgator.com/
  10. http://hostgator.com/
  11. http://www.scottklement.com/mailman/listinfo/ftpapi
  12. http://xurrency.com/
  13. http://www.hostgator.com/
  14. http://hostgator.com/
  15. http://www.scottklement.com/mailman/listinfo/ftpapi
  16. http://www.scottklement.com/mailman/listinfo/ftpapi
  17. http://www.scottklement.com/mailman/listinfo/ftpapi

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