On Sat, Jan 10, 2004 at 02:53:33PM +1000, Adam Nielsen wrote: > That would probably be the nicest way, then for those who don't want it to > reconnect they can just set the timeout to zero. Or they can set it to > something like eight hours, so they'll eventually reconnect without it being > annoying.
That can be combined with a popup which allows to instantly reconnect or to abort the countdown... > It is probably the best way of implementing this feature though, I can't > really think of a method to make it perfect (i.e. reconnecting as soon as > another client goes offline) short of implementing an ICQ "proxy server" to > handle it instead ;-) One could try to poll the HTTP response of http://wwp.icq.com/scripts/online.dll?icq=1234567890 . It contains "Location: /0/online0.gif" if one is offline (online2.gif is unknown, any other image is some sort of online). Daniel
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