[Zope] Http API Ping

[Anthony Baxter]

Couple of ways to do it:

  easiest is to embed an invisible 1x1 image in the bottom corner, and
make it your external URL.

  second easiest is to do the naive urllib.urlopen approach - no timeouts,
anything like that

  you could also do this with a timeout - you have to do some of it yourself,
using select.select - I can post some code for this if you like.

Anthony

>>> "Brendon Grunewald" wrote
> Dear Zopistas,
> 
> Quick Question:
> I need to ping an external url, but do not want the customer to click a
> submit button or something similar. i.e. if a certain page is viewed, I want
> to ping an HTTP API on another server in the following format:
> "http://www.sp.com/api/@param=abc". Depending on the parameter sent to them,
> I either need to store the result returned or ignore it and carry on
> regardless.
> This is similar to the way counters work, but I would prefer not using
> Javascripts. Is there a zope solution. <dtml-call ...> does not seem to work
> for external urls.
> 
> Any assistance much appreciated...
> 
> Regards,
> Brendon
> 
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