Looking glasses with programmatic interface?

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I'm surprised to see that every looking glass I know is only reachable via an
interface made for humans, not for programs. When you want to query the LG via
a program (for instance to monitor your routes on a distant LG), you need to
emulate an human being and parse HTML (or sometimes Cisco text) replies.

Does anyone operate looking glasses with an interface made for programs such
as XML-RPC <URL:http://www.xml-rpc.org/>, SOAP <URL:http://www.soapware.org/>,
Java RMI, Corba (no, I'm joking) or Microsoft COM (joking again)?

What do you think of a standard XML-RPC API for looking glasses?

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Hi Stephane,

I'm surprised to see that every looking glass I know is only reachable via an
interface made for humans, not for programs. When you want to query the LG via
a program (for instance to monitor your routes on a distant LG), you need to
emulate an human being and parse HTML (or sometimes Cisco text) replies.

Public looking glass are for humans.
I do not want my looking-glass being heavily loaded by cron tool.

looking-glass use router CPU and i do not want to see a foolish guy to
put a :

* * * * *

Crontab ...

Route-server is a solution to have load CPU router.

Vincent.

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I'm surprised to see that every looking glass I know is only reachable via
an interface made for humans, not for programs. When you want to query the
LG via a program (for instance to monitor your routes on a distant LG),
you need to emulate an human being and parse HTML (or sometimes Cisco
text) replies.

send code <tm>

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Hi Stephane,

I'm surprised to see that every looking glass I know is only reachable via

an

interface made for humans, not for programs. When you want to query the LG

via

a program (for instance to monitor your routes on a distant LG), you need

to

emulate an human being and parse HTML (or sometimes Cisco text) replies.

Public looking glass are for humans.
I do not want my looking-glass being heavily loaded by cron tool.

looking-glass use router CPU and i do not want to see a foolish guy to
put a :

* * * * *

Crontab ...

Route-server is a solution to have load CPU router.

Vincent.