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Re: Massive LDraw file repository
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lugnet.cad.dev
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Tue, 10 Jan 2006 15:06:07 GMT
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On Tue, Jan 10, 2006 at 02:23:56PM +0000, Jacob Sparre Andersen wrote:
> Dan Boger wrote:
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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.
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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 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.
> 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.
Right - the clients pushing data to the server, they're just using HTTP
to do that push. I'll cobble up an example shell script later today to
demonstrate how to do a file push using wget. If you're writing perl or
php apps, it should be even easier. Of course, if you're writing in C,
you're on your own :)
--
Dan Boger
dan@peeron.com
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| (...) I use HTTP POST to have my work computers talk to databases and it seems very unreliable because if there is a network problem, the request dies then and there. But if I use email, the server will keep retrying. But I agree, HTTP POST is easy (...) (18 years ago, 11-Jan-06, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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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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