[Sanjiyan]

Originally posted by James Cridland
Great hack.

Users with Opera might like to know that you can set that browser to re-load a page every x minutes: so, if you've a permanent connection, you can force a gateway "ping" every half hour by leaving Opera on in the background.

Of course, it's also possible to add a meta-refresh in the gateway.php code itself, too - for those of us without telnet access...

I just set this up to run every hour on the hour using MS Task Schedular:

C:\PROGRA~1\INTERN~1\IEXPLORE.EXE http://www.wocs.net/gateway.php

That to me is the better way, apart from the fact that if I am playing Counter Strike it pulls me out of the game screen to show that this is running. which is annoying.