ASP: Currency Conversion

[AntiThesis]

Building an ASP site and I'm looking for a way to have live currency conversion. People are just a bit too lazy to click on the link I gave them

Now, I could pull data from the reservebank website (read it off a table) but if they ever decide to change their website it all falls to crap.

Anyone dealt with this? Have any ideas? The service should be SAfrican if possible for speed reasons.

 

[albert123]

well, any "source" you read it from will only work until they change it? so maby rather have something that checks it every day and if it doesnt work still sends you a email so you can fix it, or maby if it fails to get from the reservebank, it tries another place, like moneyweb, however i think the most "constant" table would be the reserve bank

while on the topic of ASP though.... a problem i have had for somet ime now, when i put in a asp page to for example show a picture it reads the picture from the client side. so if the client is on my intranet and the asp page is on intranet server and the picture is on the internet, the client needs internet access to see the picture. is there not a way to let the intranet server get the picture off the internet and then feed it to the client?

 

[hj007]

albert123 - can you not set up a proxy on the server, that if a client requests an image in the cache it can serve it from the cache on the server, else it will fetch it from a remote server (here remote being the Internet)?

 

[ap0c]

Use web services and get the rate from there. A lot better, more reliable etc.

 

[QRator]

Use web services and get the rate from there. A lot better, more reliable etc.

What do you mean by "web services"?

 

[Kloon]

just add runat server to the control and it will run at server side