Re: [Boa-devel] CGI-Bin DirectoryIndex (was: cgi-bin buffer flushing issue)
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From: Peter K. <ja...@su...> - 2002-12-10 21:57:24
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>>>>> "larry" == larry <la...@do...> writes: larry> My recommendation is always to use static index.html files. larry> They can be regenerated on-demand by explicit request, or by larry> cron. True, that's also why I'm trying to make the directory indexing / caching a bit more flexible. In our case we use Boa for our mirrors (for the people who cannot use ftp because they are behind a firewall and so on), and a lot of the directories do not have index.html's. As I see it we have 4 options: - Generate static index.html's for the directories without any after each mirror update - We prefer the mirrors to be as "clean" as possible, so no extra sunsite specific files. - Use the DirMaker directive to have a directory index generated dynamically for each directory request through CGI - The overhead is quite bad. - Use the Builtin directory indexer and caching - Performance is good, but the indexes are not exactly pretty (we would like to add a bit of sunsite info to the indexes) - Generate static dir.dev.inode files (cache) on each mirror update - problems with stale cache as files are updated (Boa afaik returns an error if it cannot create an updated info) The nicest thing would imho be if Boa could cache the output of the DirMaker - so that's what I was looking at. -- Bye, Peter Korsgaard |