Comic.asp questions ...

[Rupp]

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On my comic.asp page the following comics no longer work. Anyone know how to "fix" the url's?

Dilbert: http://www2.uclick.com/feature/04/04/25/dt040425.gif

Peanuts: http://www2.uclick.com/feature/04/04/25/pe040425.gif

[CFGuy]

Try this one.

Some of the comics do not do a Sunday one, so there are a few broken images on Sunday.

[Rupp]

Jeff,
You must of given me the last one because mine is identical to yours (save a few lines). So the 2 I mentioned above must not do Sundays. Thanks for the file. Greg

[CFGuy]

The one you have is probably from the updater.

I did make a change to get Peanuts and Dilbert to show up today.

[Rupp]

Ah HA. I had renamed my link to newcomic.asp and saved your file as comic.asp. Your asp has a lot more comics. Are a bunch of the comics near the bottom not showing up for you?

[CFGuy]

Yeah, the ones near the bottom were not showing up. Found out that several of the comics.com comics changes from a gif to a jpg on Sunday.
Re download the asp I posted above, I made a change to look for a jpg on Sunday.
Also comics.com uses a different code each day, so in the comic.asp there is a function to find that code. It finds it once per day and saves it to an ini file.
Make sure you have an event setup to reset the code in the ini file.

<pre class="ip-ubbcode-code-pre">
Sub Main()
hs.SaveINISetting "Comics","Code1","Reset","server_info.ini"
hs.SaveINISetting "Comics","Code2","Reset","server_info.ini"
hs.SaveINISetting "Comics","Code3","Reset","server_info.ini"
End Sub
</pre>

Just put the above code into a script that runs once a day after midnight. It will reset the code. The next time the comic page runs, it will go find the codes from comics.com for that day.

[CFGuy]

I have sent the changes to the updater.

[Rupp]

Jeff,
Should it create this ini file on its own? I do not have a comics.ini file.

[CFGuy]

Yes, it will create a server_info.ini file on its own.

[ameridan]

Thanks for sharing Jeff, it works great!