Re: List of clients to autoupdate on cb change?

Not all of us are as addicted to the CB as you. ;)

I can't say it seems like the bandwidth utilization is high for the CB. I like the one outside server idea, but add use of UDP to the bill too. It seems a lot of people want the CB to be more like IRC... maybe someone should throw up a not-so-official perlmonks IRC instead?

I haven't personally seen the XML format used for CB grabs, but it is also possible to use server-push (multipart or just stream-mode) to feed clients at near real time. In fact, I believe there's a CUFP on exactly that subject. Of course, this also imposes extra load, so maybe the push could run from the "one outside server" that receives the real stream.

Somehow I forsee a great smacking-down of this idea, though! :) ++ for the proposition though

mhoward - at - hattmoward.org

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Re: Re: List of clients to autoupdate on cb change? by TVSET (Chaplain) on Jun 14, 2003 at 11:51 UTC
It seems a lot of people want the CB to be more like IRC... maybe someone should throw up a not-so-official perlmonks IRC instead? Don't be surprised. :) IRC is a de-facto standard for real-time chatting. Many people are aslso used to this facility implemented in other protocols (ICQ for instance). I am also in favor of using IRC for CB. It simplifies things greatly, gives more power to the thing, and most importantly it removes the client-software limitations. Reloading a page is so boring. :) There are also a number of irc2web gateways which provide a better interface then CB does now (server-push/nph, or java and all that). Leonid Mamtchenkov aka TVSET	[reply]
Re: Re: List of clients to autoupdate on cb change? by OverlordQ (Hermit) on Jun 14, 2003 at 05:21 UTC
I'm sure some of my friends would yell at me for this, but you can come to our little IRC Network ( irc.remnetworks.org (#PerlMonks) ) if you'd like an 'Offically Un-Official' PM Chat	[reply]