Depends on how fast your modem is, and how big the home page is. If he starts hitting SlashDot on a 2400 baud modem, and is checking 4 times an hour, that's way too much useless traffic, and simply contributes to useless net-gestion.

And, if any one cares, it skews the hit counters on the pages. Let's do that to www.stonehenge.com, and suddenly you may find that it *appears* that thousands more people are interested. Also fills up web logs uselessly.

The socket code may be a few more lines to type, but it cuts down on net traffic (one, vs possible dozens of connections, for each image on a page), doesn't inflate hit counters, and is more net-responsible.

Frankly, I'm a little surprised you let that slip by.

--Chris

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In reply to (jcwren) RE: (3) Net::Ping not working by jcwren
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