Re: [Xlog-discussion] How about a callsign server lookup button to open the page in your browser?

[Leigh L. Klotz, Jr WA5ZNU]

I have the XML lookup code in fldigi.  It uses a fairly anemic XML 
library called irrxml, because fldigi has a low-memory version.
You could start from there since it's GPL as is xlog.
The screen-scraping (non-subscription) version tends to break every now 
and then when QRZ.com decides to change things.
Leigh/WA5ZNU
> Hi Joop, et. al.,
>
> I'm wondering if there is a good reason why we can't have a button that
> will allow you to automate the process of copying and pasting the call
> sign of the station you are working into Firefox (or whatever your web
> browser is) so you can see the data on a call sign server like qrz.com
> or hamcall.net, or any of the other call sign servers.  
>
> I realize having a URL that is hard coded into the program makes it very
> susceptible to changes webmasters make to things.  To get around this,
> we could have a preference setting that would allow you to construct a
> URL, where CALL would be replaced with the call of the station you are
> looking up.  For example the URL for qrz.com for my call (kl7na) is:
>
> http://www.qrz.com/kl7na
>
> What do you all think of this idea?
>
> 73,
>
> Rob, KL7NA 
>