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Re: Partsref DAT download problems?
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lugnet.cad
Date: 
Thu, 28 Oct 2004 02:42:47 GMT
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In lugnet.cad, David Laswell wrote:

  
Dunno for sure, since I’ve only used Partsref on one or two occassions. After reading this, though, it sounds like Partsref has more than a few problems.


Wow, if I had seen that I wouldn’t have even tried. Peeron it is then. I guess I go to Partsref just out of habit...

No wonder Steve won’t talk to me anymore! ;^)


   One way to figure out if this particular problem is on your end or Partsref’s would be to compare the URLs that the two different links send you to. If they’re the same, it’s on your end. If it’s different, it’s another Partsref problem. Perhaps the two search avenues provide DAT links from different sources, be it a local database, hard-coded into each page, or ported over from LDraw.org.

Partref search results link:

http://guide.lugnet.com/partsref/search.cgi?q=3001


Partsref directory link:

http://guide.lugnet.com/jump.cgi?http://www.ldraw.org/library/official/parts/3001.dat


FWIW

Thanks all,


Darrell



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  Re: Partsref DAT download problems?
 
(...) I didn't see it myself until today, when I spotted a new reply to it in the .admin group. (...) category entry correctly links you to .../parts/3001.dat. I'd guess the category pages are hard-coded, since they're HTML, while the search results (...) (20 years ago, 28-Oct-04, to lugnet.cad, FTX)

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  Re: Partsref DAT download problems?
 
(...) Something like that. I was saying more on the basis that if you're already involving Peeron in your search process, there's no point in using that information to hunt the parts down in another database when Peeron already provides direct links (...) (20 years ago, 28-Oct-04, to lugnet.cad, FTX)

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