user-tailored "most wanted list"

pizzamike64 · Posted: Sun Jul 18, 2010 6:31 am Post subject:

I like this! Sanna, I was LOL at your great noobcoder story, reminds me of my days coding FORTRAN. Yeah, I'm that old! No coding since, just accounting and WOW.

Anyways, Is there a page to find the realm numbers/server ids?

Kosh · Posted: Tue Jul 20, 2010 1:52 am Post subject:

If there's an actual list somewhere, I am unaware of it, but if you go to the Census Stats page, choose the server(s) you are interested in, and hit <GO>, you can get the ServerID by looking at the resulting URL. For example, I chose "Aegwynn", and can see that it's ServerID is 595.

Regarding my web-service, I guess I didn't need to worry about getting hammered. Wink

Rollie's page ads must be the reason why so many different spiders hit that domain, though. Interestingly enough, they all seem to respect "robots.txt", although one Russian bot was unusually interested in the email address honeypot I have.

In case anyone's actually curious, there are currently 38 (mostly very expired) cache entries:

Kosh · Posted: Sun Jul 25, 2010 2:42 pm Post subject:

Well, I've promoted Version 2.0 to live.

New features in this version include some links back here so it's a little more obvious where the data comes from, and the inclusion of the total active Alliance / Horde population.

Behind the scenes, I redid how I cache the server information. Instead of just caching the pre-formatted line, I cache the elements, so it is now possible to change the contents of the line if you turn off verbose mode.

If you really liked the old format of the server lines, you can add "&format=classic" to the query.

I also wrote up a brief man page, for those of you who are just dying to know what the various options are. Wink

I decided not to clear out the existing cache, so if you force the use of expired cache, you will still see the old format for anything that was cached before roughly 15:00 CDT today.

Hybuir · Posted: Mon Jul 26, 2010 5:01 am Post subject:

there's always room for moardots Wink

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Kosh · Posted: Tue Jul 27, 2010 12:23 am Post subject:

Don't worry, big heaping helpings of moardots are up for the taking. Wink

(I had briefly considered also adding gray dots in the background, but decided not to bother.)

To help the OCD-crowd ( :p ), I'll post the "bare" link from the last page again....