How would I do this?

I'm developing an intranet site and I want to download news headlines to
display on our homepage. I've got this part to work already, but its not
efficient enough for my liking so would like to instead of refreshing and
re-downloading the headlines every time the page is visited by an internal
user, I would prefer to download the new headlines every 20 minutes on the
server side and then feed the user a static include file (dynamically
generated), so that we have minimal hits on the remote news server.

See what I mean(?), its almost as though I want a piece of code set on a 20
minute loop to generate a file based on the input of another one. Any
(preferably ASP) solutions out there already for this type of thing?

Cheers.

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>I'm developing an intranet site and I want to download news headlines to
>display on our homepage. I've got this part to work already, but its not
>efficient enough for my liking so would like to instead of refreshing and
>re-downloading the headlines every time the page is visited by an internal
>user, I would prefer to download the new headlines every 20 minutes on the
>server side and then feed the user a static include file (dynamically
>generated), so that we have minimal hits on the remote news server.

Cough, well I know nothing about ASP.

However, couldn't the include file be a bit dynamic and check how long
it was since it last checked for headlines? If it was =>20 minutes ago
get headlines, serve them, and cache them for further requests.
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Martin Jay