RE: [WEB400] Caching Net.Data

["Metz, Zak" <Zak_Metz@xxxxxx>]

Mr. Gombkötö, thank you very much for that reference. Indeed, that was EXACTLY 
what I was looking for. I suspected it could be done, but was at a loss on what 
to search on. STDOUT was the key.

I'm going to begin developing this, and I'm going to try to build it in such a 
way that any website could use it.

In fact, the site as it stands, at least the "backstage" area, is already built 
in such a way that nearly any database table could be worked with 
(add/edit/delete). Somewhere in the back of my mind I have a fantasy about 
completing that stuff, cleaning it up good, and sharing it with all my friends 
here who love Net.Data.

The problem is that, since this is my hobby site, every time I get an idea of 
how I could be a little more clever, I dive into it...it's the project that 
never ends!

-----Original Message-----
From: Anton Gombkötö [mailto:gombkoetoe@assoft.com]

>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.