#!/opt/bin/ruby require 'socket' $SAFE = 1 host = "localhost" port = 8000 online_image = "tastycastsmall_on.gif" offline_image = "tastycastsmall_off.gif" # The shoutcast HTTP server seems VERY picky about the request used to access it. resp = "" TCPSocket.open(host, port) do |sock| sock.print "GET /7.html HTTP/1.0\r\nUser-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows NT 5.0)\r\n\r\n" while dat = sock.gets resp << dat end end # the HTML returned is something like: # 0,0,8,32,0,128,Explosions In The Sky - once more to the afterlife online = false if resp =~ %r{(.*?)