Posted by Andy Dingley on 12/06/06 00:34

Toby Inkster wrote:
> Andy Dingley wrote:
>
> > For unusably small values of "nicely".
>
> OK, so it's unlikely you'd want to do exactly what I posted as an example.

I wouldn't ever want to do anything that involved PHP's include() and a
URL

> More likely, you'd have PHP download a copy of the file, cache it, and
> probably parse and reformat it.

Yes, that's the level of trouble you'd have to go to. It wouldn't use
include() anywhere.

For almost all rational purposes involving content aggregation across
servers, then RSS is the sensible way to go.

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