[Nms-cgi-devel] Re: [Nms-cgi-commits] CVS Commit

[Nick C. <ni...@cl...>]

On Fri, Apr 05, 2002 at 10:38:14PM +0100, Nick Cleaton wrote:
> 
> Now it nearly passes its first test, but not quite.
> The guestlog isn't valid XHTML because the entries are
> appended after the </html>, so we'll need to do the whole
> tmp-file-and-rename-into-place for that as well as the
> guestbook :(
> 

The way I see it, we have 3 options:

Rewrite the whole log file each time.  Inefficient for a
large log file, but the cost of rewriting the guestbook
should dominate unless the guestbook gets cleaned out more
frequently than the log file.

At each write, truncate the "</body>\n</html>\n" off the
end of the log file, write the new entry, then put the
footer back.

Just append as we do now, but make it OK by distributing
a guestlog.txt file rather than a guestlog.html file.

Thoughts ?

--
Nick