Sivakatirswami , > I can move the source text and templates to the web server and convert my > local metacard button script to a .mt script and then let the web server > build the page each time someone hits on it. I did much the same thing at http://www.navaching.com to serve up new daily Haiku and proverbs. The page is built just ONCE a day, automatically at the site. Every time someone hits on the page cgi checks the date (compares it with a text file) and if it's tomorrow rebuilds, if it's today then just sends the page. The trick was (is) two fold: 1) generating a new page 2) and the "Status: 204 No Content" & cr business below. This was the hardest part until I found 204. Without 204 you'll get an error, as the web is set up on a call/response basis. What you want to do is send nothing back and that's what 204 does. So the guts of the script below only kicks in once a day, otherwise the page is sent. 204 is what made the whole thing possible. You can make it work without 204 but the FIRST hit tomorrow (the rebuilding hit) gets today's page. If your traffic is heavy and/or you aren't to concerned about that first soul who shows up tomorrow then you can drop 204. #!mc ------- update.mt update html pages on startup -----------------checkdate put url "file:seconds.mt" into it if the seconds>it then put the short date into temp convert temp to seconds put (temp+86400) into temp --the daily seconds open file "seconds.mt" for write write temp to file "seconds.mt" at 0 close file "seconds.mt" -- generate data for new pages --update pages You have dummy pages with variables in the html and just search for and replace with the data generated -- send 'Update' page put url "file:../update.html" into buffer put "Content-Type: text/html" & cr put "Content-Length:" && the length of buffer & cr & cr put buffer else put "Status: 204 No Content" & cr --a non response end startup There is a slightly better explanation in Section 8 of http://www.navaching.com/pagem.html. This deal has been running for a couple years without a hitch. Nelson Zink Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/metacard@lists.runrev.com/ Info: http://www.xworlds.com/metacard/mailinglist.htm Please send bug reports to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, not this list.
