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Topic: Autofire web application

Posted By: wancherng
Subject: Autofire web application
Date Posted: 01 April 2003 at 6:16am

a newbie quetion:

i would like to know how can i create an application that periodically perform a background task in my web server?
this is because i need the application to auto-retrieve data of another website(others ppl's website) and automatically update the data into a database in the server(autorun for mayb every hour...etc).and i can't use scheduled tasks in my server to do this.
so, how do i start to build the application?
hope you all can help bcoz this is the first time i build a web application and i have no idea how to start it.
thanx in advance.

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Posted By: ulfe
Date Posted: 07 April 2003 at 3:46am

You could have a page autorefreshing (using meta-tags) and then preform the things you wanna do

One piont though, you have to have a browser open somewhere all the time to get this working