georgefscott
HiThanks bennean. Yes I have done the VS wsdl thing, and it all works. The reasons I want to hand-roll is partly for performance, partly to educate myself, and partly to make my code base more language and o/s portable.Thanks birchy.I think my first question is: "Is the XML sent as a WebRequest POST merely a byte-encoded string"? Or is there somethong more complex going on?ThanksChris
Bennean: API request XML - hand rolled — Do you realise that Visual Studio will do all the work for you if you point it at the WSDL uri ([url])Do you really find hand-rolling XML fun? Wierd!
Mrchameleon: API request XML - hand rolled — HiI'm new to the Betfair API, but have used the .NET tutorial in the Betfair Developers Forum to generate a working C# bot application (in a rather "paint-by- numbers" fashion).For no particularly good reason I now want to hand-roll a C# .NET Betfair API application. I have used some of the XML snippets above to try and generate a login, but my requests are returned with a Java Exceception …
Birchy: scraping prevention — Are you using the "Pragma: no-cache" header? If not, try it. I'm no longer scraping betfair, but i remember that i always used the main loader url and not the one they use for refreshing:[url] note that i never used any of the url parameters. And do make sure that you're not using the "prevcache" parameter...although that should be obvious
Tams: scraping prevention — I'm using Visual Basic Express and also MS Access on Vista. PC where it works has XP. I've tried ActiveX Data Objects, MS HTML, MS XML 6, WinHTTP 5. Not web browser component. Data refreshes okay with IE
Captain-Sensible: scraping prevention — I'd agree with birchy I used to have problems like that when using flash+php to scrape sites and the prog was just returning cached data unless I was adding random numbers to the url to make the returned data unique
Birchy: scraping prevention — That's definitely a cacheing problem. What language/libraries are you using? Is the other PC running the same operating system? You're not automating a web browser component are you?
