Could I use Google App Engine to host a Java IRC Bot? -


I have an IRC boat that is fully written in Java that I am hosting on my home computer, But my iffy internet connection was disconnected too many I was wondering if I can use Google Apps Engine to host bots with consistent connections? If so, what kind of changes do I have to make?

Thanks for the help

No, you can not do that Google App Engine Do not allow arbitrary outgoing socket connections (perhaps because they do not want to use their platform as a proxy server). The closest thing is to access external content on the network / Internet

By using it, you can drive an existing web-based IRC client using any such App Engine App. Although I'm not sure how to use the web-based IRC client directly.

In addition to this, you can not make "consecutive connections" to an app engine app (or from). The platform will automatically have any time-out / closure requests that can not be completed within 30 seconds or more.

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