Well, now LiveJournal has finger support! (I refuse to put up a link to a web/finger gateway.... anybody that would find this cool already has finger right in front of them)
Check it out.... it's not done yet, but it was a quick and easy hack. A little perl, a little DBI, reading the 1 page spec for the finger "protocol" ....
I'll finish it sometime. But now I should sleep.
Newbie socket programming question --- when I'm working on it I often kill it (Control-C), and then restart it... sometimes it works, but sometimes it says "Address already in use at ..." , and the location the bind call is at. I have a $SIG{'INT'} handler that closes the socket handles... what else do I have to do to tell the operating system I'm done using that port? I hate waiting for it to time out.... gets annoying.