Basically impossible. There is no way for the server to send any messages to the client machines (your machine) unless your machine asks for something. This is because there is no server software on your computer listening for incoming signals. Instead there is web browsing software that listens for incoming data, but it only listens in response to specific queries it has made - it's not listening all the time.
What could be done (and this is how the old watcher page used to work,) is to make a web page so that your browser automatically reloads it at a specific interval (like every 5 seconds or something.) In other words, you can't push unrequested stuff from the server to the browser, but you can have the browser just constantly poll (anything new yet? anything new yet? anything new yet?) so that when there is something new it will show up.
But that's not really what you are looking for. And it puts a big load on the server to have everyone polling all the time.
If your email is retrieved automatically you might try signing up for email notification of changes (in /subscription for each page.) This way you at least know when to bother refreshing.
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What could be done (and this is how the old watcher page used to work,) is to make a web page so that your browser automatically reloads it at a specific interval (like every 5 seconds or something.) In other words, you can't push unrequested stuff from the server to the browser, but you can have the browser just constantly poll (anything new yet? anything new yet? anything new yet?) so that when there is something new it will show up.
But that's not really what you are looking for. And it puts a big load on the server to have everyone polling all the time.
If your email is retrieved automatically you might try signing up for email notification of changes (in /subscription for each page.) This way you at least know when to bother refreshing.
- jim 12-12-2003 4:30 pm