problems with server code and ideas for the future

Ephoton · Tue Jul 12, 2005 5:16 pm

this server lets me logout then keeps my name up till its cron function
comes around to check on user status. I can then wail still having my name shown
as active login. yes kiddys that means multiple logs yucky.
I and some others here are good coders lets begin a project to make a P2P
forum that never goes down (please ive been begging for this since the hive)

sbrothy · Tue Jul 12, 2005 9:32 pm

I thought the user login was handled by the application server (or in the case of Apache HTTP server and php it would be handled by the php code). Creating *NIX logins for everyone on this board sounds like a serious security risk that noone in their right mind would implement.

Just my 2 cents.

sbrothy · Tue Jul 12, 2005 9:40 pm

Don't misunderstand me. I'm not trying to patronize you. I just don't understand what cron has to do with the user login timeout of the forum software? I thought that would be taken care of by a php timer function or the perl interpreters buildin garbage collector?

primathon · modified

If you log out, you're logged out. The server checks for active users every five minutes, and displays the data accordingly. This forum is difficult enough to preside over, and I'm not about to reinvent the wheel here with some new P2P distributed forum network infrastructure, which would either require a proprietary client, or a browser portal - neither of which I'm inclined to undertake at the moment (if only I had that kind of free time <sigh>). This board works great for what it does, and I'm not too keen on obliterating it and porting everything to a system that doesn't even exist yet. That's just my two cents, though.

sbrothy · Tue Jul 12, 2005 9:48 pm

Indeed. In my humble opinion it works just fine. Reinventing the wheel is a very apt statement. Looking at wetdreams they seem lightyears behind in usability. Ofcourse, we have still to see what the hive comes up with. Wink

I'll shut up now.

sbrothy · Tue Jul 12, 2005 9:57 pm

Then again. Come to think about it I can see ephoton's point. P2P is the way to go. There is even an opensource distributed bittorrent protocol in the making which would make sharing those ebooks that I mostly come here for a real charm. But you're right: It works. Moderating a distributed P2P forum would probably be a major pain in the proverbial butt. I guess we'll have to wait for the software to mature.

Now I'll really shut up. Smile