Re: PING/PONG

[Kaspar Landsberg <kl@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

On Mon, Feb 08, 1999 at 11:33:20PM +0100, Robert Martin-Legene wrote:

| > Indeed. And you dare to call _that_ elegant?
| 
|   What's not elegant about thinking about things for more than 2 seconds?
| If you are making a client/script anyway, why bother the server about some
| functionality that can be accomplished quite simple anyway?
|   Maybe Kasi could comment on a solution like this: Assume we send a PING
| every 10 seconds.. every time we send a PING we push a timestamp on the
| "stack". When we get a PONG, we pop the oldest one.
| 
|        stack:
| 
| PING   (+0)
|  PONG  ()
| PING   (+10)
|  PONG  ()
| PING   (+20)
| PING   (+20,+30)
| PING   (+20,+30,+40)
|  PONG  (+30,+40)
| 
| Wouldn't this work? Or what am I missing?

uhm. :)

I´m not the client coder guru but even to me this looks pretty much
expensive/painful than just sending out a bogus command and wait for the
return of it..

Bye, Kasi

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Kaspar Landsberg, <kl@xxxxxxxxxxx>