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Re: Request change to ptreleases.cgi
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lugnet.cad.dev
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Tue, 20 Jul 2004 18:15:23 GMT
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On Tue, Jul 20, 2004 at 05:46:10PM +0000, Travis Cobbs wrote:
> The sizes could either be added immediately following each filename
> (after a tab, of course), or they could be appended to the end of each
> line (with tab separators). Appending them to the end of each line has
> the advantage that any existing programs might still work without
> knowing about the change. (Unfortunately, they also might not.)
I always thought it should emit XML, which would make it really easy to
add more info (like what you're suggesting) without affecting backwards
compatibility. Maybe it's not too late to do that. From looking at the
logs from the last few days, there's only one IP that is trying to hit
it - could it be yours, perhaps? ever 90 seconds or so, from a rr.com
domain?
So it seems that we can make the change... Again, I'd push for
switching to a complete XML interface, perhaps with a mode where you can
just select which columns you want to get in a tab-delimited format,
just to make it easier for languages that don't deal easily with XML.
I would even volunteer to make the change, given Steve's blessing.
Oh - and reporting the file size is a very good idea. Hitting the cgi
every 90 seconds (in production, not during development) is not such a
good idea. :)
Dan
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Dan Boger
dan@peeron.com
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| (...) Yes, that would be me. I had a messed up bug in my HTTP download code that took me a long time to track down. (Note that the bug didn't cause the unusally large number of downloads of the file; tracking down the bug did.) In general, I'm not a (...) (20 years ago, 20-Jul-04, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| I have a request for a change to be made to the ptreleases.cgi script that keeps track of all parts updates. Unfortunately, if anyone has actually implemented support for automatic updates using this script, my suggested change might not be (...) (20 years ago, 20-Jul-04, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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