Re: [WEB400] Caching Net.Data

[Anton Gombkötö <gombkoetoe@xxxxxxxxxx>]

> 1. How would one go about "generating" the cached pages. I know I could
> use a PC-based tool to "download" the site, then publish it back to the
> IFS, but I'd rather 100% automate this. Can I call Net.Data from the
> command line and redirect its output to a file?
Yes!
Just look at the Net.Data forum:
http://server6.kepnet.com/cgi-bin/db2www/forum.d2w/view?SID=20000110182221678137

> 2. I realize this may be too application-specific, but in vagaries, how
> could you "wrap" the website to be able to recognize that a page is in the
> cache and display it? Maybe convert the single parm that can be passed
> into the page (K) in a folder name, something like Index/1/Index.HTML,
> Index/2/Index.HTML...I don't know...
> 3. If I do something like the naming above, can the logic to decide if the
> cached page exists or not be moved to the Apache server itself using some
> sort of pattern match mapping?
2 and 3: i once saw a very interesting article discussing this. It was an
Apache article, but i can't remember where it was.

The main "trick" was to have a custom "page not found"-page that produces
the page as desired. Maybe that helps or helps someone to remember or point
you to the story.

> 4. Where does one learn more about the syntax for pattern matching used in
> Apache? I need the dummies version. I'm dying to get rid of the
> /cgi-bin/db2www/ that's in every URL, as well as mapping / right to the
> home page instead of clicking to it.
4a) these are regular expressions and you find a lot of samples on the web.
At least that's where i end up most of the time, looking at different samples.

4b) that's the welcome page(s).

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