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➜ Checking to see if the MUD is up on a website
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Checking to see if the MUD is up on a website
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| Posted by
| Nick Cash
USA (626 posts) Bio
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| Date
| Tue 15 Apr 2003 02:19 AM (UTC) |
| Message
| I was wondering if anyone has ever put something on a website that told if a certain mud was up or down. If not, does anyone have any idea's on how it could be done? I know this is probably related to a cgi or something else but I really don't have a clue where to begin. I thought it might be convenient, so players would know not to just sit and try to connect for an hour. Anyways, all help is always appreciated.
Thanks |
~Nick Cash
http://www.nick-cash.com | | Top |
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| Posted by
| Nick Gammon
Australia (23,133 posts) Bio
Forum Administrator |
| Date
| Reply #1 on Tue 15 Apr 2003 08:08 AM (UTC) |
| Message
| | Mudconnector has such a thing. Are you asking where one is, or how to write your own. |
- Nick Gammon
www.gammon.com.au, www.mushclient.com | | Top |
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| Posted by
| Zhamel
USA (67 posts) Bio
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| Date
| Reply #2 on Tue 15 Apr 2003 08:56 AM (UTC) |
| Message
| | Like Nick mentioned, there is a Java Telnet Appplet that can connect to different MUDs on the MUDConnector website. If you wish to have something similar you can get basicly the same thing at www.first.gmd.de/persons/leo/java/Telnet It can telnet into your MUD, or into another if you wanted. | | Top |
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| Posted by
| Pihhan
Czech Republic (3 posts) Bio
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| Date
| Reply #3 on Tue 15 Apr 2003 11:21 AM (UTC) Amended on Tue 15 Apr 2003 11:43 AM (UTC) by Pihhan
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| Message
| Maybe you could try PHP, if you want only to see if it is up (think you want).
if you supply to check.php somethink like this:
<?php
$status = fsockopen( "my.mud.site.org", 4000, $errno, $errstr, 2 );
if ($status) {
echo "Mud is Online";
fclose($status);
} else {
echo "Mud is Down :(";
}
?>
You need site with PHP support and enabled network functions of php. (Some have this disabled due to security)
$errno is error code ( 0 = noerror )
$errstr returns error message, 2 is timeout in seconds. In php4 might be <1, 100ms timeout = 0.1
I didnt tried it now, it may not work. |
Creator of Zeme Prizraku
telnet://zeme-prizraku.mudy.cz:8000
Jabber: pihhan@jabber.cz | | Top |
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| Posted by
| Nick Cash
USA (626 posts) Bio
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| Date
| Reply #4 on Wed 16 Apr 2003 02:21 AM (UTC) |
| Message
| | Thanks for all the suggestions. I went with the PHP, and with a tiny bit of tinkering to fit it to what I needed it worked perfectly. Thanks so much, its great :) |
~Nick Cash
http://www.nick-cash.com | | Top |
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