CricketMX.com

WPN Lister

This is a program that connects to the WinMX Network and loads the channel list over and over, saving it to a file as it runs. I have also included a sample php script that produces a web page containing the channel list, and 2Sen's Web Chat applet so users can join the rooms from that listing... enjoy!

The program generating the web chat listings is a simple program that loops endlessly on 5 secondary connections loading room lists, then it simply saves the file containing any rooms its seen in the last 5 minutes, I found that multiple connections was better listings than a single one (like I assume 2sen uses) and of course the constant looping around was just to keep it as fresh as possable.

Unfortunately its a killer on the servers bandwidth, the constant 6-8k/s download isn't too bad but when someone wants to load the channel list its a good 900k file (thank god for HTTP supporting compression) and the CPU load of loading the list and sorting it etc when the user requested it does cause everything to stop for a few seconds, thats why I decided not to keep it on the new site.