Hey,
Thanks for replying.
> Ok dude, braindump coming up - just some random
> thoughts and ideas,
> no concrete answers:
Thats ok, still in the planning stage, not a line of
code written so am open to ideas instead of just
concrete answers.
>
> 5000 * 100 = 500000 bytes - i.e. on average about
> half a meg,
> that less than many image uploads. so a POST could
> be acceptable.
> serialize will add to the ammount sent (and there is
> the
> security issue of unserlizing data) but you can POST
> serialized
> data as easily as anything else...
Ok.... after looking at this more carefully I see that
I can actually throttle the data...
eg: 1/10 of 5000, so send just a string of 500
> what options do you have for the having over the
> data?
> what is the structure of the data you need to send?
The _closest_ I can describe the data is like just
plain usernames, no passwords, so the array would be
something like:
('hugo_the_boss','james007bond','max_power','etc')
in "peak season" I expect the array to go upto 5k
entries but very unlikely as I will be transferring
data every minute of only new entries.
Still, its better to be over protected and plan for a
higher volume than plan for lower and then be
surprised.
> send( join('|', $arr) );
>
> // instead of
>
> send( serialize($arr) );
Interesting...
> yuo could consider JSON notation (probably more
> compact than serialize) -
> and in the process maybe even be the first guy to
> use JSON for server to
> server comms :-P
Yep, and the first to run into any problems ;-D
> you could setup an XML feed that they can request at
> their leasure.
Good idea! See? I didnt think of that.
> you could also skip the webserver and go directly to
> using FTP or SCP
> or something like that (would require a line or 2 of
> shellscript - using gzip
> to compact the data can also be very helpful
Cant do that, no idea how the clients machine will be
setup and need to make this as compatable as possible
as I wont have access to the remote machines, the
clients have to install the scripts by themselves.
> the question as too whether this is alot to send
> depends on how
> often you need to send it
Every 2 mins max, usually every min.
> > Can you suggest the best method of doing this?
>
> well the answer is probably not pigeons. or
> hedgehogs ;-)
Damn! there go my TOP 2 ideas...... killjoy... :-)
Cheers!
Ryan
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