Is this possible? (A part that outputs to an online writeable file)

[Krisism]

I was thinking about an idea the other day and wondering if someone with more knowledge can help me understand if this is even possible.

Basically, I love the whole challenges thread and think community challenges are an awesome way to amp people up over this game and keep them interested. So, to continue with that idea - what about having a part you can add to a vessel which will actually record information about flight status/position/ect. This part would have a tiny GUI that pops up at the beginning and end of a flight, allowing users to select a challenge (which will then give the part a set of variables to record), or to submit the flight data respectively.

The flight data/variables would then need to be pushed into a script somehow. I can figure it out past that (as I work with web development) - but before that I have no clue what is possible. It would also be important have the ability to update the challenges (shown at flight beginning) - so that someone could just click 'update' and it will look in another online file to download a log of active challenges (and maybe the top 3 leaders too).

I know there is a lot too it - but mainly the issue I have no clue about is the read/write to online file during gameplay. Any help or just feedback on the idea is appreciated. Thanks!

[EndlessWaves]

Have a look at Telemachus, it's very similar to what you want to do.

[Fel]

Actually, that is what Unity.WWW SHOULD be used for, right?

As a web dev, you can probably handle all the get / post stuff

http://docs.unity3d.com/Documentation/ScriptReference/WWW.WWW.html

[Krisism]

Great, thanks for both the tips - I'll check them out further!