RE: Caching Net.Data

Almost there, one quick question: Can I pipe STDOUT directly to the IFS when I 
call Net.Data from my CL program that is generated the page into the cache, or 
is it a two-stepper, PF->IFS?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Metz, Zak
> Sent: Tuesday, December 10, 2002 10:51 AM
> To: web400@midrange.com
> Subject: RE: [WEB400] Caching Net.Data
>
>
> 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=20
> 000110182221678137
>
> >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.
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