Monitors.txt - lazy webapp monitoring • Hacker News Board

Re: Monitors.txt - lazy webapp monitoring

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Post by jebblue » Sun, Nov 06, 2011, 6:12 PM UTC

lparry wrote: post #69

jebblue wrote: post #53

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JSON is harder to read than XML, to my human eyes.

Wow, first time I've ever heard someone say that. Most people I know think XML is horrid to read, myself included. I'd take json or yaml over XML any day

I'm probably in the minority on this one yes.

Re: Monitors.txt - lazy webapp monitoring

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Post by LukeShu » Sun, Nov 06, 2011, 8:46 PM UTC

eliot_sykes wrote: post #46

LukeShu wrote: post #44

I like the idea, but not the URL. How about moving it to "/.well-known/monitors.txt" in conformance with RFC 5785?

Thanks for this, looks like a step in the right direction, do you know what successful applications there have been to this RFC? http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5785

The biggest one I know if is "host-meta" (RFC 6415), which is used by webfinger (properly supported by gmail), and a few other "social"-type protocols.

Re: Monitors.txt - lazy webapp monitoring

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Post by politician » Mon, Nov 07, 2011, 6:20 AM UTC

dextorious wrote: post #79

dextorious wrote: post #28

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He means of "English, the natural language", dummy.

Downvotes? 1) Friends of the parent poster? 2) People thinking "dummy" might hurt one's feelings? 3) People willing to accept needless pedantry when what was meant is obvious? 4) People that also think that the original comment was against english keywords ?

Well, most people around here seem to think that throwing around invectives lowers the quality of discourse, so yes, you probably got downvoted for that. But actually, and, yes, I may be stupid and slow, but I actually thought the author was a non-native English speaker who didn't appreciate blocks of English in his code. I made that jump after considering his statement in light of other large blocks of natural language that often exist in code -- comments.