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Re: Massive LDraw file repository
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lugnet.cad.dev
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Tue, 10 Jan 2006 13:26:18 GMT
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On Tue, Jan 10, 2006 at 08:31:37AM +0000, Jacob Sparre Andersen wrote:
> > It would be cool actually, if any time an ldraw file is added to
> > brickshelf, the repository is automatically notified and updated...
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> > Or if someone was using a gallery app and they add a file, if the
> > repository is automatically notified and updated.
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> That could be done pretty easily. Just set up an e-mail address for
> the repository which only accepts messages formatted as descriptions
> of LDraw files (however we decide that format to be). Then the
> various publishers of LDraw files will just have to make their systems
> send an e-mail to that address whenever there is a change in their
> collection of LDraw files.
Using email for the transport here is just adding comlication - why not
just have a web API that the remote repos use to notify of updates?
Could be a fancy SOAP/REST interface, or a simple POST form.
It's not hard to parse email, but it's messy, and more importantly,
there are many hosting services that are not set up to send out email!
--
Dan Boger
dan@peeron.com
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| (...) I find it easier to make a script dump an e-mail with some text in a mailbox than to hack a HTTP POST form. I might not care to implement such an announcement feature in my script, if it was too much work to do. Sending e-mail and posting to (...) (18 years ago, 10-Jan-06, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| (...) I'm very lazy. ;) Any interest in a copy of the program that generates my overview file? (...) Definitely. Maybe we should take a few moments to think about how to announce the available LDraw files on a web site? Is the NNTP/SMTP header (...) (18 years ago, 10-Jan-06, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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