On Sun, Sep 15, 2002 at 10:55:56PM +0200, J?rg Walter wrote: > On Saturday 28 September 2002 06:05, Robert Barta wrote: > > When exactly > > should you write a 'provider'? > > You would use XSP if the act of calling the page may have side-effects. One > example is a form mailer, another one would be the entry form of your blog. > For "constant" access to some data, a provider is much more useful, as you > only need to provide a last-modified timestamp and get automatic caching for > all pages based on your provider.
So a provider is sort-of a specialized XSP... > For example, I use a mysql TIMESTAMP field on all SQL tables I intend to serve > through a provider, getting the required last-modified timestamp for 'free'. Clever. Thx! \rho --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
