Hello,
I've been working on an Ajax/Comet interface for pushing logging information into a separate tab of the browser. So
far it's still more or less in alpha, but it's functional and functioning fairly well in a couple of projects I've been doing at
work. It basically works by juggling piping the logging information through an open HttpRequest, which writes
<script> tags to a hidden IFRAME. Script on the front end drops the logs into a table, which is limited to a set
number of rows.
Users just see a table with all the recent log entries, which get updated live and rotated out when they're old.
The implementation isn't suitable for a web farm, unfortunately.
It's been useful at work because it's easy to set up and doesn't require additional access to fileshares or databases in
order to see the logging information.
Unfortunately, I don't have a host which supports IIS or mod_mono, so I don't have publicly available demo for it.
(Though I might be able to pass off a link to a staging installation in private).
I was going to post the code up at SourceForge in order to share it out with other developers who might want to
use it, but I thought I would pass it by you kind folk to see if you'd consider it as a viable inclusion in your project. Or
maybe it grows up a bit on SourceForge before getting included later on?
If you want the code, I can pack it up and send it to someone, or check it in to somewhere. Let me know.
Thanks,
-d
