Colin Marquardt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> "Andrew M. Bishop" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > Colin Marquardt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > With the new version 2.6 (from Debian unstable, if that matters), I
> > > do not see a way to get the full cache index anymore (called "Latest"
> > > in older versions, IIRC). Is there a way to get it back?
> >
> > This index option has been removed from the latest version.
> > The reasons for doing this are that it took too long to create (it
> > needed to search through all hosts to find the newest files) and there
>
> IIRC all it took stopping the creation process is to press the Stop
> button in ones browser, no? Have there been actual complaints from
> users who were accidentally accessing this index and couldn't stop it?
No, this would just stop the browser displaying the page, the indexing
would continue in the background.
The code for this index was also rather different from the other code
for the other indexes. It needed recursion across directories which
the others didn't.
The other problem is that to maintain a consistent interface the
buttons on the top of the index pages mean that you can select
"Latest" while sorted alphabetically. If you actually wanted the
"Latest" index sorted by date then you needed to select that and
search again. It didn't cache the result so that it could be
displayed in a different order.
> Okay, I haven't yet checked out the htDig interface which might be
> able to do this too, but I guess it takes even longer to create an
> index with a * wildcard.
Using htDig (or other search engine) is definitely the way to go. If
you get htdig to index all the cached files every night then you can
search for a word anywhere in the cache (not just in the URL) in a few
seconds. It beats trying to remember what the name of the URL was and
looking through a list of 200 files from the last 30 days.
Have you tried using the "Date changed" sort order in the http index?
It will show you the hosts whose pages you have visited in date
order. You can then try likely hosts and they will also be sorted in
date order.
I really don't want to add this index back in again (in case you
hadn't guessed).
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Andrew.
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