Attention HFSLinks.com Users

[Chop Smith]

We are making some changes to the hfslinks,com script to add RSS feeds. If you need anything special for it to work with your ll script, please let me know in a hurry.

That are a couple more little bells and whistles we are adding. If you have any suggestions to fit your needs, now is the time to make them.

[Linkster]

Reverse the links on the filler sites

[Simon]

I think he's following Tommy's "one for you and two for me" rule on that one.

[docholly]

Originally Posted by Simon

I think he's following Tommy's "one for you and two for me" rule on that one.

Fillers are actually a motivatinal tool to be used by affiliates to pressure their sponsors into making HFS thus eliminating the need for fillers. Kind of like a cyber equivilant of a cattle prod.

[Simon]

But of course they are.

I was jesting about Linkster's jesting request to reverse the links ... based on a weighted comparison of median percentages of converted clicks from added pages to converted clicks from gallery pages.

I guess that'll teach me to keep jokes simpler.


"One if by land and two if by sea" -- Israel Bissell

[docholly]

Originally Posted by Simon

I guess that'll teach me to keep jokes simpler.

or maybe I should.. *slapping knee*..

[Greenguy]

[CelticTiger]

Originally Posted by Greenguy

Love that smilie.

I wouldn't focus on the negative of having no index or main page links...yeah index/main page links get more clicks but when a submitter gets his/her freesite listed there's nothing in it for the linklist owner. At least with the fillers there's a chance for the link list owner of getting a sale from it and he gets to fill up categories with quality freesites.

[emmanuelle]

Originally Posted by Simon

But of course they are.

"One if by land and two if by sea" -- Israel Bissell

Listen my children and you shall hear
Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere,
On the eighteenth of April, in Seventy-five;
Hardly a man is now alive
Who remembers that famous day and year.
He said to his friend, "If the British march
By land or sea from the town to-night,
Hang a lantern aloft in the belfry arch
Of the North Church tower as a signal light,--
One if by land, and two if by sea;
And I on the opposite shore will be,
Ready to ride and spread the alarm
Through every Middlesex village and farm,
For the country folk to be up and to arm."

[Simon]

Originally Posted by emmanuelle

Listen my children and you shall hear
Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere...

Yep... that's H.W. Longfellow's take on the event. But good old Paul only rode 19 miles on his famous midnight ride. Israel Bissel rode 345 miles for four and half days, non-stop, to spread the word.

“Listen my children and you shall whistle,
At the amazing ride of Israel Bissell."

Yeah... not quite as catchy.

[Simon]

Originally Posted by CelticTiger

I wouldn't focus on the negative of having no index or main page links...

I really don't. As I've told Chop before, I actually make sure to use all the filler sites I can as a way to say thanks for the work that goes into HFS Links.

Linkster is not only God (per Tommy), but a provacateur too.

[Useless]

I'd hate to be the one to get this thread back on track, since that's not normally in my nature , but has anyone given the RSS angle any consideration? Would you use it? How would you use it? What would your needs be? King of Siam: "Etcetera, etcetera, etcera."

[Chop Smith]

Originally Posted by Useless Warrior

...but has anyone given the RSS angle any consideration? Would you use it? How would you use it? What would your needs be?...

I had a request concerning an add-on for the X Power a script. The way I understand it, they will use RSS to draw from the HFSLinks database to import our new listings into their database. Our end is coded and waiting for them to test it.

The only other enhancement requested was to allow the users of hfslinks.com the ability to select thier delimiter in the download file. In order words if you want to use comma or anyother character as the delimiter, you now can select it.

[Linkster]

Originally Posted by Simon

Linkster is not only God (per Tommy), but a provacateur too.

Now now - I dont really stir shit - I just throw everything in the blender and see what it makes

[Simon]

Chop - Besides X Links being able to import directly into their database via RSS, do you plan to make a general RSS feed address available? I'm interested to see how the feed would appear in a reader (in my case, the Safari browser).

[Chop Smith]

Originally Posted by Simon

Chop - Besides X Links being able to import directly into their database via RSS, do you plan to make a general RSS feed address available? I'm interested to see how the feed would appear in a reader (in my case, the Safari browser).

PHP Code:

http://www.hfslinks.com/members/index.html?rssfeeds 


This is not yet on the menu so you will have to paste it the address after you log in.

Let me know what you think.

[Simon]

I like it. It works fine for me. I logged and pasted that address into my browser and I went to the page where I could create my personal RSS feed link. I pasted that new link into Safari and the feed showed up just fine.

Will you be adding any other options to that feed? I can get the url, title and description in the feed, but not the sponsor name or the category.

I noticed that the actual feed address contains my username and password in the url. I wonder if encrypting that, or replacing it with a unique identifier of another kind, might be a good security measure.

[Chop Smith]

Originally Posted by Simon

I like it. It works fine for me. I logged and pasted that address into my browser and I went to the page where I could create my personal RSS feed link. I pasted that new link into Safari and the feed showed up just fine.

Will you be adding any other options to that feed? I can get the url, title and description in the feed, but not the sponsor name or the category.

I noticed that the actual feed address contains my username and password in the url. I wonder if encrypting that, or replacing it with a unique identifier of another kind, might be a good security measure.

Great!

Good point on the user/pass. I will get that and the options request checked out the first of the week and get back to you.

Thanks for taking your time to try it.

[Trev]

Originally Posted by Simon

“Listen my children and you shall whistle,
At the amazing ride of Israel Bissell."

Yeah... not quite as catchy.

Robert Wuhl? Or did he borrow it from someone else?

[Simon]

I enjoyed Wuhl's "Assume the Position" show, but I think he got the rhyme from the History Channel's "Time Lab 2000" narrated by Sam Waterston. I'm not sure where they got it.

[Chop Smith]

Originally Posted by Simon

I noticed that the actual feed address contains my username and password in the url. I wonder if encrypting that, or replacing it with a unique identifier of another kind, might be a good security measure.

Simon, would you mind rechecking this. If the encrypting works for you, I will activate these enchancements by placing them on the menu.

[Simon]

Originally Posted by Chop Smith

Simon, would you mind rechecking this. If the encrypting works for you, I will activate these enchancements by placing them on the menu.

Chop, it looks good to me. The new version generated the feed address below, which does not contain my username/password.

feed://www.hfslinks.com/members/rss.php?auth=97004277a2&sponsor=allsponsors&category=allcategories&type=1&date=20050101&num_results=200

The feed contents do have the affiliate codes they should, so I believe you have it working now.

[Chop Smith]

Good to know. Thanks Simon.

[swedguy]

And here I have been logging in to HFSLinks every now and then to see if the RSS feed feature is added, but no no.

For over a month it has been right here in this thread! Silly me. My night is saved.... I've got coding to do

Great job Chop

[Chop Smith]

Originally Posted by swedguy

And here I have been logging in to HFSLinks every now and then to see if the RSS feed feature is added, but no no.

For over a month it has been right here in this thread! Silly me. My night is saved.... I've got coding to do

Great job Chop

That little feature along with several others will be made public to HFS Link users after we return from the 'staff meeting' in Vegas