Login to a busy website and inform me

powah · 03-27-2008, 02:21 PM

A website is limited to 3 simultaneous users.
If the website is busy, clicking the login link will get this error message displayed at my Firefox web browser:
Unable to connect
Firefox can't establish a connection to the server at www.lirico.ca:61915.
A "Try Again" button is also displayed.
I would like to use or write a program to login to the busy website (e.g. try every 5 minutes). After the program detect that the website is not busy or even login for me, the program will inform me by generating a beep sound.
Please help.
Thanks.

matthewg42 · 03-27-2008, 06:27 PM

Sounds like you need to write a firefox extension.

osor · 03-27-2008, 09:10 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by matthewg42

Sounds like you need to write a firefox extension.

Or you could write a shell script which calls firefox if it detects a connection (of course there might be a race condition here):

Code:

#!/bin/sh

while ! curl www.lirico.ca:61915; do sleep 5m; done

firefox www.lirico.ca:61915 & printf '\a'