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Re: Massive LDraw file repository
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lugnet.cad.dev
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Tue, 10 Jan 2006 14:23:56 GMT
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Dan Boger wrote:
> 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.
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 newsgroups is trivial to
do from a POSIX script, while HTTP seems more complicated. Also, SMTP and NNTP
are intended for pushing data, while HTTP is intended for pulling data. This
problem seems more like a push than a pull problem to me.
Play well,
Jacob
--
The LDraw FAQ:
http://www.ldraw.org/community/memorial/archive/FAQ/
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| (...) I think HTTP is more reliable in unknown environments... From the server side, the HTTP method might be more complex, but keeping the complexity on the server side is better than making complex clients. (...) Right - the clients pushing data (...) (18 years ago, 10-Jan-06, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| (...) 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 (...) (18 years ago, 10-Jan-06, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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