You have to realize - a "wassup.cgi" would only work if the OpenSRS system
was functioning properly and you could reach the server...
Network Status page is the best part - it would only aggrevate any
problems the system was having by having umpteen resellers querying the
server with "wassups" ;)
Charles Daminato
TUCOWS Product Manager (ccTLDs)
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Wed, 14 Mar 2001, Jan Vicherek wrote:
>
> I most definitely am 200% for wassup.cgi !!!
>
> Given the circumstances and amount of work required from OpenSRS, I
> consider it top priority for OpenSRS to provide wassup.cgi, even included
> in the distributed client code, so it gets included in resellers' web
> pages by default.
>
> Simply, it is a must.
>
> Jan
>
>
>
> On Thu, 15 Mar 2001, Csongor Fagyal wrote:
>
> > [...]
> > > OpenSRS every couple of minutes and be parsed by RSPs. The results could
> > be
> > > handled however the RSP saw fit. For example: if CIRA is down and no CA
> > > registrations can be done, RSPs would have a mechanism to automagically
> > find
> > > that out and display that information on their webpages.
> > [...]
> >
> > Matt, this idea is indeed sound! A CGI that gives back the status of the
> > system... and it's only one line of code, like
> > <include href='wow.a.great.cgi.at.opensrs.net/wassup.cgi?action=get_status'
> > />
> >
> > Of course on the RSP side, but that's another question :-)
> >
> > - Csongor
> >
>
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