This may only be distantly related to Bnet bot development, but I think it's related enough to post here.
The Webbot is quite impressive. I've been working on a way to do it myself using ASP.NET - but I am concerned that people who sit and constantly refresh will eat up my bandwidth limit very quickly. So my question is - how do you do it? I would imagine the bandwidth costs, even on your own server, have to be relatively high.
Thanks!
It's all text-based and vL server has plenty of bandwidth.
Edit - I can't give you any programming tips because the WebChannel service (written by Skywing) which WebBot uses is what handles all connections and the distribution of channel activity.
on the other hand I have plenty of knowledge to share on such, PM me.
Quote from: ObsidianWolf on November 25, 2003, 09:10 PM
on the other hand I have plenty of knowledge to share on such, PM me.
Or just share with everyone in this thread if you want to be helpful.
Do y'all pay for a web host, or does someone have a direct connection at home? :-)
Quote from: Spht on November 25, 2003, 09:12 PM
Quote from: ObsidianWolf on November 25, 2003, 09:10 PM
on the other hand I have plenty of knowledge to share on such, PM me.
Or just share with everyone in this thread if you want to be helpful.
Ironic.
The way it works is that the servers sends its own http headers, but (I forget) either sends conten-length: 0 or skips content-length all together, so, as they're watching, it continually sends data and the browser constantly streams it, without the need to refresh.
The channel-list, on the other hand, does refresh. But note that it's only a few bytes, and it's much more costly to view a forum page than that.
Quote from: iago on November 26, 2003, 08:43 AM
The way it works is that the servers sends its own http headers, but (I forget) either sends conten-length: 0 or skips content-length all together, so, as they're watching, it continually sends data and the browser constantly streams it, without the need to refresh.
The channel-list, on the other hand, does refresh. But note that it's only a few bytes, and it's much more costly to view a forum page than that.
Interesting. Thank you!