I finally got to releasing an updated version of SkyQuotaX. Belgacom Skynet entirely updated their account management web interface so that it broke SkyQuotaX.

It’s a pity Skynet doesn’t offer a SOAP service to their account management yet. It would make it a lot easier for third-party tools to download account usage statistics which in turn makes for good promotion for Skynet. Telenet does offer this service with Telemeter4Tools. I’ve been thinking of including support for Telenet accounts in SkyQuotaX (in fact I have an already functional SOAP parser which works with Telemeter4Tools) but the service unfortunately disallows multiple requests within a certain time-frame. This would require some kind of storing of the account data on the user’s machine — if the user restarts the program within the time-frame, it won’t be able to download the stats again. Which, IMO, kind of defeats the point. Why release a service which dramatically reduces server traffic by using SOAP, but then disadvantage new tools which make use of this service? Alas! (Edit: Apparently the time-frame restriction has been removed. SkyQuotaX now supports telenet accounts)

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