[Dxspider-support] QRZ.PL rewrite

[Dirk Koopman G1TLH]

Jim Reisert AD1C wrote:
> On 9/6/2009 6:28 AM, Ricardo Suarez wrote:
> 
>> Good job, but is a secure waste of time, the owner of qrz.com NOT want
>> us as users, he wants us as readers of commercial announces, non better
>> demonstration of this the aleatory lines added on the qrz web page. For
>> this cause I run on my new approach to solve the cluster´s dx 
>> information.
> 
> Have you looked into the XML lookup?  It requires a username/password, 
> but you get XML output which can be easily parsed, not ads!
> 
> 73 - Jim AD1C
> 

I have a "license" to use this XML interface. For various reasons (which 
is partly to do with lack of time and partly because of one aspect of 
the API) I have not rewritten sh/qsl to use it.

There is also the small matter of a suspicion (and it is, currently, no 
more than that) that we are being treated differently to sysops of other 
software, in that (I think) we will have to pay the subscription to his 
xml service, where as (I am given to understand) they don't.

I would be open to changing sh/qsl to using the XML interface, if there 
is any interest.

Dirk G1TLH