BSNL Broadband: Datafox: BSNL Broadband Bandwidth Monitoring Extension For Firefox

Revenge of the bots B)

OMG !!! spam bot attacks !! ....take cover....!!
Sergent Sushubh...we need more ammunitions and reenforcement. :P

Great job! Worked great but I am afraid about security coz I am putting my username and password into this... :o

I get a red X mark next to the datafox icon bottom right occasionally when i try to log in. What should i do to avoid this?

There are several reasons which could cause DataFox to display an error marker:

1) Network not ready / error when DataFox attempts to connect
This is probably the most common reason; for instance, my computer connects on demand, if DataFox itself is the first to make that demand and the time interval between the request for connection and actual connection establishment is too long, DataFox will time out. I'll see if there is anything I can do to improve this behaviour.

2) BSNL server not responding / returning bad data
Sometimes the server DataFox polls will not respond or simply respond with an error message, I have seen this happen - you can double check this by visiting the server in question in IE.
Sometimes sancharnet.in will not redirect you, or will redirect you to a bad/slow server. Here you could override the redirect and specify the IP address of a server which you know is both fast and reliable.

3) Bug in DataFox or BSNL changed it's output format
I haven't come across this sort of bug in DataFox yet, but who knows
In case you rule out #1 and #2 above, but DataFox still shows you an error marker, it's possible that BSNL has changed the format of it's output. At this point DataFox will fail for everyone (including myself) and I'll work on getting an updated version out asap as if my chuddies were on fire ;)

Brian.

someone needs to update this page:
http://wiki.broadbandforum.in/Datafox_for_BSNL_DataOne

Am new to editing wiki, so plz. give a hint on what needs to be updated!

^ as you are interested in this Datafox extension , it would
be nice if you could write a review on Datafox at the wiki !