You may be right about whether some things belong in Arachne, rather than wwwman, I don't really know.
You mention cache "synchronization" for wwwman in connection with the "cacheindex" feature, which I'm not familiar with as yet (I'll have to figure out which updated "exe" Ted says I should download from FTP first;-). Rather, I'm talking about simple "desktop (F10) oriented" stuff. If I use Arachne/wwwman as a "navigator", it won't give me the up-to-date directory listing unless I refresh/reload. That's silly. Just because it's appropriate for Arachne/wwwman (see first paragraph;-) to use the cache to optimize web/internet bandwidth, doesn't mean it's appropriate to blindly give outdated directory listings for my local drives. It should be possible to first check that the directory hasn't changed, before using any cached HTML-formatted directory listing. In fact, if these HTML's can be generated quickly enough (I haven't tried to quantify this), why cache them at all? Joe. > -----Original Message----- > From: Clarence Verge [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, April 10, 2002 1:29 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: wwwman.cpp (was Re: Comments?) > > On Wed, 10 Apr 2002 12:09:23 +1000, da Silva, Joe wrote: > > >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > >> >anyhow, shouldn't 'wwwman' be able to tell if the cache of the > directory > >> >listing is current before using it? > > >> Hmm, i was thinking of that too. just to add a fileexistance test > before > >> printing would be easy for someone that knows C. > > That is a good example of asking it to do more than necessary IMO. > > The cacheindex function should be simply limited to doing exactly > what it implies - showing what it thinks is in cache. > > It should be up to Arachne to get cache.idx synchronized with cache. > There is hardly any value in duplicating the work. > > > Also, it must see if there are any new files ... > > Arachne better take care of this too, otherwise cache.idx is useless.<g> > > >> >I invariably have to "refresh/reload" > >> >anything 'wwwman' shows me, because too often it's outdated and > >> >I can't trust it. > > That can happen if you return to the cached "cacheindex" page after > surfing. The problem here is that item should never be cached. <G> > > - Clarence Verge > - Back to using Arachne V1.62 ....
