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Keep alive connection

I need to make a small program, that will send a ping to a server once every 5 minutes or so , so it will keep a connection alive.

We run a pronto SCO server and users on a remote connection are getting lockups if they leave the console inactive for more then 10 minutes.

I need the program to start when windows starts and issue two 32 byte pings once every 5 minutes.

I am presuming this will help with the lockups, unless anyone knows of a better way to achieve this.

Can this be done easily in javascript?

Regards

justinbillig

<body onload="HeartBeat( );">

then your heartbeat function would look something like this

function HeartBeat( )
{
// I have no idea how to ping the server, so this may not help

// Call this function again in 5 minutes
setTimeout( "HeartBeat( )", 5000 )
}

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karl_Pacey

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Runs like a charm, however is there anyway to surpress the command prompt opening on top of other applications each time the script runs. ie: i can't see an option to hide the command prompt

devic

hi karl_Pacey,

I don't know how, but I thought for another script, you don't need a ping, but "Keep alive connection"...

===========pong.vbs===============
theURL = "http://www.sembel.net"
Set objHTTP = CreateObject("MSXML2.ServerXMLHTTP")
objHTTP.SetTimeouts 1000, 1000, 1000, 1000
objHTTP.open "GET", theURL, false
objHTTP.send
'msgBox objHTTP.responseText
Set objHTTP = Nothing