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On Monday 27 May 2002 11:39 am, andy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
Hi all, here's today's challenge (got squid working by the way, thanks) .... I use ppp and a chat script to connect my dialup modem to the internet I've got it set up to dial on demand .... ... I open my browser .... ... my modem dials and chat starts to log in .... ... my browser times out .... ... chat finishes logging in .... ... I have to restart my browser .... ... everything now works as normal.
I use a variety of script techniques using PHP. Basically, if the SERVER
fails to find the internet connection, that's fine. If the browser fails, it
can screw up the browser.
Enter this using vi etc:
<html><head>
<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="120">
<?php
if ($fp=@xxxxx("http://www.someserver/page/etc",r)) {
fclose($fp);
}
?>
</head>
<body>
Trying to connect</body>
</html>
Change the remote file location to match something that doesn't change often.
(You don't have to specify the full page, the main URL will do.)
Save it as a PHP file. (Hopefully you've got PHP running as a module of
Apache.) Every two minutes that this file is displayed in the browser, it
will check for an internet connection without causing problems with the
browser session. (Using galeon or Opera, this can act as a 'keep-online'
script too - leave it displayed and it will stop ppp timing out and dropping
the connection - while the tabbed galeon interface allows you to carry on
surfing in the same browser session.)
Similar techniques could be used with other script languages that can open
remote files. (Not sure if bash will do it.) It may be possible in Javascript
although it may not solve the browser problems as Javascript doesn't run on a
third party.
I don't know whether bash has this capability, but Python probably does and
Perl certainly does, just I haven't written a script for that in Perl! IT
could be done as a CGI script that would work just like the PHP above,
providing you have Apache running. If you haven't got Apache running, or PHP
installed, bash could run a perl script to do the job. Let me know and I'll
try one. You'd have to start this separately from the browser though.
is there any way to get ppp/chat to give dummy replies to keep everything that requests internet pages happy and stop them timing out
That works in reverse (keep-open scripts) but the browser will still time out if it doesn't get a complete page. q
cheers Andy Weir
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