Re: A ping program in javascript?

On Wed, 20 Jul 2005 04:41:16 -0700, Egil Hansen wrote:

> Hi Martin
>
> Thanks for the reply. I wasn't aware of the security issues.
>
> It would be easy to make it server side, but that's not really what I
> want. I want to allow the users to ping a server (gaming server), so
> they can know, how good or bad their connection to it is. Do you see
> any way doing this, so it won't be too much of a hazel for the users
> (e.g. changing security settings/giving my site special permissions)?

The server would have to ping the client... assuming the client allows
icmp.

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