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Re: Ldraw.org: Organization and look & feel
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lugnet.cad.dev
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Fri, 9 Apr 1999 21:29:01 GMT
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At 08:37 PM 4/9/99 +0000, Todd Lehman wrote:
> > I don't mind storing the files there, but I
> > would like to have pages that refer to the *files* there in our own look
> > and feel.
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> That is in fact exactly what something like
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> http://www.lugnet.com/news/ldraw.cgi?lugnet.cad.dat:100
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> does. Note that there are two scripts in the /news/ directory --
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> display.cgi -- displays full article text
> ldraw.cgi -- serves raw DAT content
Good. I have absolutely no problem with using an existing database
residing on lugnet.com instead of creating one from scratch. Its a good
way to avoid redundancy, avoid redundancy. :)
> Now that there is a form-upload, BTW, which makes uploading DAT files much,
> much easier, I'll probably have it add a special marker to the articles it
> creates so that the DAT content can be extracted from the article 100% • exactly
> as it was originally uploaded. (The current ldraw.cgi strips blank lines and
> comments from DAT content, which isn't so great, but it was just a temporary
> solution.)
Great! Could we make the upload available from ldraw.org too? I'm sure
the set database would include some sort of 'powered by LUGNET' or
something about the Lugnet server being in there... what are your thoughts,
Todd?
> The URL samples above will probably look more like this in the future:
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> http://www.lugnet.com/cad/dat/?nnnn
> http://www.lugnet.com/cad/dat/?Xnnnn
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> where nnnn is an article number and X is some optional special symbol to
> request the file be served in its native form as raw DAT content
> (application/x-ldraw) rather than a web page (text/html).
I assume nnnn will be an official TLG set number so we can easily link to
them, right?
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| (...) One option is that you could simply point people to: (URL) has the benefit that it will automatically recognize them and fill in their name & e-mail address into the form, so they don't have to type it in each time they post a file. Otherwise (...) (25 years ago, 10-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| (...) I should think that 300mb would be enough. I only expect the programs to take up 50mb at the most. As you know, sites themselves take up very little space. (...) That URL didn't load for me. I don't mind storing the files there, but I would (...) (25 years ago, 9-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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