I’m looking to supply a process that only reads from a local file with content from an http URL. The process is a daemon that is hard-coded to read a specific file in it’s current working directory and reads it whenever a particular event happens.
I have no control over the event that triggers the file read and I want to supply near real time data instead of constantly dumping data via a curl script to the file.
What I thought might work would be a fifo that executes a command whenever it is read. This would then be connected to netcat or curl to retrieve the contents of the URL (xml data). Is this possible?
