UserTime is a CGI (common gateway interface). It was written by Jochen "Joe" Savelberg to allow the customers of euregio.net to have an uptodate indication of the time that they've spend online. (Gratis Service!)
First, the user has to enter some information, such as his/her username, his/her password and to select some more options. Please note that the username and password are case-sensitive! Just enter the same information which is in your PPP conntection script and you'll be fine.
The web server passes the information to HyperCard - the program the UserTime.cgi was written in. HyperCard then calls another script which sends some TCP/IP commands to euregio.net's UNIX server. This server returns the login times for the requested account. Then HyperCard takes over again and calculates the costs and creates the information page which is sent back to the web server and to the user's WWW client (such as Netscape Navigator, Mosaic, etc.).
...several users are requesting this service at the same time?
Well, it works according to the principle of FIFO (first in, first out). That means that the first request will be handled first and the remaining requests will be queued.
The drawback is that there is a certain time-out (in our case 360 seconds). Whenever there is a request that is in the queue for a longer period than this time-out, the request will be cancelled. The user gets a message that the gateway timed out. The user could try to send the form again a little bit later.
While the UserTime.cgi is processing the request, the user can still continue his quest for the holy grail, i.e. he can continue surfing the Internet. All he/she has to do is to choose 'New window' from his/her browsers menu. The other window will still be waiting for the results of UserTime.cgi.
You don't have an account at euregio.net, but you still would like to try UserTime.cgi. To enter the Demo-mode, you should use "UserTime" as username and as password you should enter "Demo". Then you'll get the statistics of a demo-account. This should give you some idea about this cgi.
Well, this service is still in beta-testing. Sometimes the server might not respond to a user's request. Sometimes the server may freeze completely. But please be assured that the best efforts were put into the design and the development of this service. We will continue to improve this service as we get more feedback from our customers.
Meanwhile you can put all the blame on me, Jochen "Joe" Savelberg. If you want to flame me, just click on my name ;-)
Otherwise standard disclaimers apply, i.e. euregio.net is not responsible for any damage of any kind and everything else...
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Try UserTime.cgi
There are several new additions and improvements in version 2.0:
Jochen "Joe" Savelberg, Technical Consultant, Euregio.Net AG
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