SPUG: A refreshing look at a file system

Richard Wood wildwood_players at yahoo.com
Wed Oct 25 18:03:33 CDT 2000


Thanks for the suggestions so far,

I like the idea of having a hidden frame being
refreshed with status and the displayed frame watching
it for a change.  I will pursue that for the time
being.  I am not certain of the firewall issues but I
believe it will be a consideration.

I figured someone would have an idea!

Thanks

Rich Wood


--- Showell30 at aol.com wrote:
> Maybe some sort of two-window Javascript setup could
> make the META=REFRESH 
> solution work.  The controlling window would refresh
> often, and then, only if 
> it got actual new data, the controlling window would
> refresh the main window. 
>  Haven't this thought this through too much, but I
> throw it out as food for 
> thought.  
>     
> I worked on one project once where we had a
> browser-based solution to monitor 
> live trace data, and we were able to make it work
> using non-parsed headers 
> and other such things.  We eventually rewrote it to
> be traditional 
> client-server w/sockets, and I was glad we did it. 
> (I used Win/MFC for 
> client, Solaris/Perl for the middle tier).  It was
> an internal app, though, 
> so no firewall issues.   Mainly I liked the
> client-server app better due to 
> being able to add more GUI features that the users
> liked, but also the server 
> code became simpler once the client got smarter (no
> CGI/less keeping track of 
> state).  
> 
> In a message dated 10/25/00 2:58:57 PM Pacific
> Daylight Time, 
> wildwood_players at yahoo.com writes:
> 
> > I could use some form of META=REFRESH but that has
> >  some problems because this is a form and the
> refresh
> >  is pretty annoying especially when the refresh is
> >  rapid enough to be timely and when the result of
> the
> >  refresh is nothing happens.  A friend suggested I
> >  embed a JAVA applet which would connect to the
> server
> >  and initiate a process to monitor the directory
> and
> >  signal when a change occurred.  But that might
> run
> >  into firewall issues.
> 
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Richard O. Wood
Wildwood IT Consultants, Inc.
wildwood_players at yahoo.com
206.605.2539
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