How to remotely disable plugin?

I would like to know if it is possible for a plugin to check an online text file (or pastebin), and if it has a certain word in it, disable itself. And if so, I would like to know how to do it.

 

Just open up a URL connection and get the information.

 

@teej107 And how is this done?

 

@pie_flavor

• Get the URL of the site where the text is located
• open the conenction.
• Read the all the page info
• If the text contains the word(s) you're looking for
• Disable the plugin

BTW: If you're doing this as a "Unless you pay me, the plugin will not work" sort of feature, Just note it is really easy to disable this feature. It requires only a small amount of knowledge about Java to edit the plugin so that is bypasses the check.

 

And how is this done?
I have no idea how any of this works. My only Java experience is plugins and a god-awful Asteroids.

 

@pie_flavor
If you don't have knowledge about dealing with webpages you should not be making a plugin until you fully understand it. We will not spoonfeed you the code and you will most likely get lost if you try to attempt this without any knowledge about how to go about doing this.

I would recommend you google about how to read URLs. This will give you a better understanding of how it is done.

 

I think the reason he is here is because he's trying to understand it. I believe he came here in the hopes that someone will explain it to him and help him

 

https://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/net/URL.html#openConnection()

https://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/net/URLConnection.html#getInputStream()

 

We would be happy to help him if this was a Bukkit problem. This has to deal with opening and managing webpages, which goes beyond Bukkit. IMHO threads like these should not be posted here and should be moved to a "General Development" forum.