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Ossirrus
Imperial Academy
Amarr Empire
#1 - 2013-02-07 07:57:19 UTC
I'm not new to programming i am however new to using eve API. My question is about the Cache timers. Does this mean that say if a timer was 60min that the data would only chance every hour? Or does it mean that they would prefer you to only make these data pulls every hour?

I would like some insight into this if you guys would be so kind. I'm hoping to write a program involving the location of corp/alliance members and a 60min wait for updating would make this impossible.
Chaotic Mind
Republic University
Minmatar Republic
#2 - 2013-02-07 08:19:42 UTC
Ossirrus wrote:
I'm not new to programming i am however new to using eve API. My question is about the Cache timers. Does this mean that say if a timer was 60min that the data would only chance every hour? Or does it mean that they would prefer you to only make these data pulls every hour?

I would like some insight into this if you guys would be so kind. I'm hoping to write a program involving the location of corp/alliance members and a 60min wait for updating would make this impossible.



it's actually both, for sure the data will not change so making more requests is useless.

too many requests might even anger the CCP gods and block you from doing any requests
Ossirrus
Imperial Academy
Amarr Empire
#3 - 2013-02-07 09:13:11 UTC
Hmmm i must be missing something then. Sites like Siggy and others seem to make real time updates of character locations w/out being subjected to this 60min timer. Thanks for the reply
Golden Gnu
The Golden Gnu Corp
#4 - 2013-02-07 09:25:36 UTC
I'm no expert, but:
You can get peoples location via the in-game browser - that is real time AFAIK.
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Kosmoto Gothwen
Frenemy Logicians
#5 - 2013-02-07 15:07:11 UTC  |  Edited by: Kosmoto Gothwen
Yes you can get real-time, well every session change and a refresh of a page (could auto refresh to do that) you can track it using headers. Currently I don't use this for tracking people as it isn't ethical for my samples. I have samples of headers @ http://igb.frenemylogicians.com/testing

These are only to help people understand the headers and what info is available via headers by seeing samples and examples.

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Ossirrus
Imperial Academy
Amarr Empire
#6 - 2013-02-07 20:09:13 UTC
Golden Gnu wrote:
I'm no expert, but:
You can get peoples location via the in-game browser - that is real time AFAIK.
Headers << That is what you need
Full Reference

Kosomoto Gothwen wrote:
Yes you can get real-time, well every session change and a refresh of a page (could auto refresh to do that) you can track it using headers. Currently I don't use this for tracking people as it isn't ethical for my samples. I have samples of headers @ http://igb.frenemylogicians.com/testing

These are only to help people understand the headers and what info is available via headers by seeing samples and examples.



Thank you all for your wisdom and guidance i will look into these for my implementation. likes for all