Re: who -> html question

From: Dark Vision MUD (acido@CHESHIRE.GATOR.NET)
Date: 06/19/98


On Fri, 19 Jun 1998, Jesse Scott wrote:

> Hey all :)
>
> I'd like to add a who -> html system but the problem is that the mud
> webpage isn't on the mud server, in fact there is no httpd at all on the
> mud server, what I have to do is have circle run a script or something
> that would upload the new who page to my FTP account.  My question is
> how I would write the script that would do the uploading, is there an
> easy was to control and FTP transfer from a script?  I also want to make
> sure that the MUD doesn't wait for the script to finish before going on
> so as not to slow it down to much.  Any help or suggestions would be
> appreciated.  Thanks!
>
> -Jesse
>
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I wouldn't recommend it. after all you would have to ftp the who listing
pretty often and it would not be very secure about password etc. :)

Acido -dvMUD


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