dell warranty query

[seth vidal]

On Wed, 2008-01-02 at 17:57 -0600, poweredgemark at gmail wrote:
> I appreciate you updating this and posting it again, I have found it
> very handy in the past. I tried support.dell.com's My Peripheral
> feature, however the summary page doesn't accurately display all the
> info for globally based gear I find. 
> 

yah - I wish this script were a little more sane.

ideally, dell would make a very simple cgi that took a service tag or
number of service tags as a get-query and returned simple xml back.
Something like:

http://someplace.dell.com/info_to_xml.cgi?tags=HQ156F1

and then handed back something like:

<machine info>
 <system_info tag="HQ156F1"/>
  <hardware>Poweredge 230000</hardware>
  <devicelist>
    blah blah blah
  </devicelist>
  <shipdate>2008/01/01</shipdate>
  <warranty_list>
    <warranty type="4 hour super" start_date="2008/01/01"
end_date="2009/01/01"/>
    <warranty type="extended" start_date="2009/01/01"
end_date="2011/01/01"/>
   </warranty_list>
 </system_info>
</machine_info>

seriously, it'd be utterly trivial to implement.

-sv