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Felime
Jul 10, 2009

Chunjee posted:

Went way far back in the thread looking for something that never got fulfilled and that I wanted.

I'd like a chrome extension/app that watches different sites every 30seconds/1min for HTTP 200 status. It doesn't have to be pretty. Must handle redirects.
Bonus points:
- in the event of a page not loading, check more frequently.
- all sites fit on page without scrolling
Hyper Combo:
- User defined words can cause different status (ie; I see the word maintenance, be an orange box)
- chart status over course of the day on mouseover
Combo Breaker Hyperpoints:
- accept outside ajax requests to create/update boxes

Concept:


I did something similar but started running into blocking/wait issues when watching 20+ sites. Haven't got around to re-writing it in Javascript.
Can definitely rustle up :20bux: if that would take more than an afternoon.


Inspired by:

This coincides a bit with some things I'd been looking to mess with and already know, but I'm mostly proficient with java/c and this seems like something that requires either a background process or a server running it in order to do stuff like chart status.

If you're doing it on a desktop or something, I can probably throw together an applet or something that does what you want. Probably including the hyper combo poo poo.

Edit: I'm a dumbass who assumes things on the last page of threads are from the last week or two. If you still want this poo poo feel free to bug me via PM

Felime fucked around with this message at 02:07 on Jan 14, 2017

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Felime
Jul 10, 2009

Chunjee posted:

I'm still interested in that. Did some patchwork on my existing monitor but it can still get tripped up if too much wait time is introduced, a flaw in the original design that would be difficult to replace.

Several people pointed out the problem with "- in the event of a page not loading, check more frequently." to which I agree somewhat. I'd like to check each site or service every 30seconds/1min. During troubleshooting however, one min is a long time to wait.

Yeah, I'll start taking a look and formalizing up my architecture. I was just going to add a "Check now" button. This will certainly take me longer than someone more experienced, as I've mostly forgotten what little I learned about coding GUIs and I'm pretty rusty on everything else. Getting back into it and relearning/building up some projects to show off. (Though the basic poo poo will probably only take an afternoon of solid work)


That said, I had a couple questions that are likely to come up as I move on:


are 301/30X code redirects the only ones it needs to handle? or does it need to work with HTML refresh redirects as well?

with user defined words, do you mean just in the status message? or anywhere on the site?

And, finally, I don't know jackshit about AJAX, so the last request will probably be pretty hard.

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