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[DJ Omnimaga]

dang they did it again now see why I host all Omnimaga files myself instead of linking to ticalc.org archives

[kermmartian]

Gar, I guess I have to email them *sigh*

[Arcane Wizard]

Maybe they'll enable it if you pay for the bandwith. ; )

[kermmartian]

lol....I think they can handle it.

[elfprince13]

They have massive bandwidth loading the Basic games page in 83+ section takes more bandwidth than this

[0oruneo0]

[Darth Android]

Well, keep in mind that while the bandwidth-per-image isn't a lot, even the little that it is adds up after each image is loaded multiple times per topic per viewer

[AlienCC]

Which is exactly why most websites disallow hotlinking, it is commonly referred to among webhosts as "stealing bandwidth".

A better approach to this whole situation would have been something along the lines of this: You take what you know, and build from there. We all know these profile stats only get updated once a week, and it wouldn't take much effort to figure out which weekday that is.

Someone requests this custom signature, so the script then checks to see if it is x weekday, if it is update the local cache of these stats if they haven't already been updated that day. If not see if you have them cached locally if so pull from that, if not well snag them. Another thing to consider is checking exactly how far down the html code the stats are stored, and not pulling much more then that, 8k seems a bit more then necessary per load it should not need more then 1 or 2k at max I would guess. Finally never load these stats unless you're loading it off your own local cache.

--AlienCC

[kermmartian]

[Arcane Wizard]

Sell them a script that does this but by querying their db instead of downing 8kb/user/day.

[kermmartian]

Wow, ticalc.org's blocking generated an 863 *MB* error log in my images directory...note to self: check for recursive error possibilities.

[DarkerLine]

Or maybe that was how often the images were used.

[kermmartian]

No, it was because I had it in a loop that just kept trying to connect until the PHP execution limit was reached (30sec). Not good.

[AlienCC]

Infinite loops are never good (didn't I point this out the other day?), a good compiler would have pitched a fit for your tent had you tried to make a binary out of it.

--AlienCC

[kermmartian]

The problem is that I don't even know how that ended up being an error - I had it trying to die if the handle wasn't valid, but if kept going past to the 8kb-retrieval loop, thus generating a warning for each iteration since it was trying to read from an invalid handle.

[DJ Omnimaga]

[Arcane Wizard]

Notepad will give a warning with anything above 64kb I believe, but it will open if you want it to.

[DarkerLine]

I've just started the process of trying to open an 8.6 MB mp3 file with notepad. It's taking a while and not responding.

Edit: but it did it. Took a while, but it did it. Notepad power!

[Brazucs]

I think you can get programs that open large files like that... yeah, I've had problems trying to open big files too

[Arcane Wizard]