>might work out the other way round - a list of potential streams which
>gets checked permanently, and a automatically updated webpage that lists
>all active streams at any given moment.
>2gether with a database of servers this may be a feasible option....dont
>you think?

i've been thinking about that two... the idea i came up with is to adjust
some basic message board in perl so you can sing on and sign off again. the
problem to me really is the problem of variable links. in other words: they
always change and it might be too much of a problem to have search engines
to constantly track them down when online.

if you would build a perl script which would work very simple, that people
go to the script, cut&paste their URL into the form, type the name and
publish and then the resutlign HTML page will feature the link. it might
get some kind of time code so that it disappears every 24 hours (if people
forget to manually sign off).

alternatively, a series of HTML pages with live links (as collected at the
link exchange) could become part of a perl script and then the webcasters
only type in their name to activate the link on the HTML page. that owuld
mean that the pages where those real audio URLs are embedded need to be
somehwat static... ;)

the problem i experienced on monday night when trying to set up a temporary
links page for all the radio streams which were on the air (irc.re-lab.net
was going mad!!!) was that the <a href=...> tag only uses ftp and http
links as external links and uses the real audio URLs as relative links,
which means they came up truly weird... so it would be good if those links
could always be embedded in a HTML page.

Micz Flor [micz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]

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