[PLUG] ssh plugin for Firefox ( or Mozilla , gasp IE )?

[Wil Cooley]

On Mon, 2005-08-22 at 15:57 -0700, Roderick A. Anderson wrote:
> or some other method to get continous data flow in a browser.
> 
> Currently I _have to_ deal with a Win2K box that monitors lost of our 
> resources.  One of those resources are mail exchangers.  Currently I have 
> to ssh (PuTTY) connections to each server running a couple of scripts that 
> allow us to monitor the messages in the queues and the other is a 
> scrolling display ( using colorize ) of the log files.
> 
> I'm going to write a version that works as/like a RSS feed for the queue 
> counts.  These will be sending to a browser window/tab/frame.
> 
> The other is trickier.  I need a method to let the display scroll forever 
> and would like that to happen in a tab/frame.  A google search for 
> browser/http/scrolling/streaming/plugin in several permutations got me 
> nowhere useful.

SSH probably isn't what you want.  You can set the refresh time of the
page and then print the last few log entries, which pretty much a
nearly-realtime tail.  There's also some push stuff with multipart
documents, I think, but I've never really fooled with that.

Wil
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Wil Cooley <wcooley at nakedape.cc>
Naked Ape Consulting, Ltd. <http://nakedape.cc>
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