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Old 09-Jan-2006, 20:53
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Hey guys, I know this might seem too sudden as I just started my other hooking program, and I'm still working on it so dont worry, still appreciate the help, ubergeek. Anyways, my curiousity wont leave me alone.

My question is, what would be the best way, or, if you were assigned to make a program that would somehow notify you of new posts in a forum, how would you do it? I know this might be forum specific, say for example phpBB? It doesn't matter what forum, I'm just curious. Would you manually go into a forum and search for new posts? If it's more complicated and no one knows I dont mind, I just thought I'd get that knowledge in for if I ever want to make something like it.
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well, you'd have to use sockets and the HTTP protocol to connect to the GIDForums server and examine the page for the poll you want. This would be forum specific to a point. You'd have to parse HTML (view source to see what you'd be up against) to find the top post. Since new posts are placed at the top, you'd want to store theh current top post, and if it's different than last time, there are new posts. I can help if you want with sockets, which are how computer programs interface with the Internet, although you should finish your current project first. I have no idea how HTTP works.
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Thanks man, yeah I'm pretty famiar with winSock. Yeah I agree, I'll finish my current project first, I tend to leave things undone haha, I guess I'm pretty hyper. Anyways, thanks man, it's what I had in mind. I just wanted to end that curiousity.
 
 

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