[REBOL] Re: Can I Ping in REBOL?
From: mat:eurogamer at: 17-Apr-2001 13:43
Heya Geraint,
GJ> Thanks for the response, but since Perl can't use ICMP without being logged-in as
the root user and it won't
GJ> work properly with other protocols, which CGI language can we use to ping our own
server periodically where
GJ> security is an issue? Or is it possible to code our own ICMP functions in REBOL or
Perl, and if so, how (bearing
GJ> in mind that I am an amateur REBOL programmer but the Network Administrator here
is fluent in Perl)?
You could always use Rebol/view/pro and call an external application
to do the pinging?
I wrote a whole load of game server polling stuff in Rebol (UDP
funkiness) and then found someone had written a command line
application that did just about every game server under the sun and
also had a funky raw output with your own delimiter chosen.
Threw out all my code and slapped that in. It's currently running
under Rebol/Command but I've just bought view/pro so I'll probably run
that as my other network stuff doesn't work properly under /command.
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