[REBOL] Re: Can I Ping in REBOL?
From: geraint:jones:meirion-dwyfor:ac at: 17-Apr-2001 13:19
17/04/01 13:56:29, Mat Bettinson <[mat--eurogamer--net]> wrote:
>Heya Geraint,
>
>GJ> Now to the problem I have: I am a Computer Technician for a
>GJ> college in the UK and the Network Administrator here wants to
>GJ> write a CGI Ping tool.
>
>No. RT hath decreed that there is no use for ICMP in Rebol. So we've
>had to use other languages for that task.
>
>GJ> will another language do it?
>
>Certainly.
Thanks for the response, but since Perl can't use ICMP without being logged-in as the
root user and it won't
work properly with other protocols, which CGI language can we use to ping our own server
periodically where
security is an issue? Or is it possible to code our own ICMP functions in REBOL or Perl,
and if so, how (bearing
in mind that I am an amateur REBOL programmer but the Network Administrator here is fluent
in Perl)?
Geraint Jones.
