On 15/12/06, Steve Sanbeg ssanbeg@ask.com wrote:
If you need the functionality anyway, doing it on the wiki shouldn't be much worse than using a CGI. So it could be useful on small site, i.e. to document a service and monitor it on the same site.
I didn't mean to imply that it was totally useless, of course; if you need it, you'll use it.
I'd think it could benefit from some improvements, such as to allow a parameter in LocalSettings to restrict where it can connect to; and have its own cache, so you can view it as often as you want from as many pages, without hitting the same address many times a second. That would be a nice benefit to using the wiki.
Those would be sensible additions.
Rob Church