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neilk 7 days ago

Seems a bit like webhooks?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webhook

Although your model is polling rather than making the other server push something.

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IshKebab 7 days ago | parent [-]

Webhooks are not relevant to this use case.

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oreilles 7 days ago | parent [-]

Webhooks would be much closer to a sane solution to this use case. Why would you spam a web server asking repeatedly wether something has happened or not, instead of just providing him with an adress so that he can simply let you know in due time ?

	▲	wpm 7 days ago \| parent \| next [-]
		It's not spamming any more than me opening their website myself in a browser, loading their entire webpage, looking "Is part 3 posted yet", and doing that every day until part 3 is posted. Except this idea is automated, and wouldn't need to load the entire website.
	▲	IshKebab 7 days ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Because then you have to maintain a publicly accessible server, and he has to maintain a database of everyone who has clicked the button. It wouldn't be "spamming", just loading a tiny endpoint once a day (or less!) is a trivial amount of traffic. Doing it your way would be completely unworkable.