On Sunday 20 July 2003 03:37 pm, Tom Kaitchuck wrote:
> On Sunday 20 July 2003 01:47 pm, Nick Tarleton wrote:
> > If [EMAIL PROTECTED]/site// is a DBR site, then [EMAIL PROTECTED]/site actually
> > contains a
> > small 'DateRedirect' meta tag. This causes fproxy to redirect to
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]/<date>-site. This is a normal site containing a normal mapfile.
> > The only advantage I see to altDbrUrl over the standard one is that it
> > can be used in any Freenet client, whereas the standard one has an fproxy
> > CGI option. The disadvantage of altDbrUrl is that, if it can't be found,
> > you can't go back another day because fproxy won't know it's a DBR site.
> >
> > You will only get the standard/altDbrUrl option if fproxy knows you're
> > trying to reach a DBR site. This means it already has the root
> > ([EMAIL PROTECTED]/site). The standard yesterday URL will internally redirect
> > directly to altDbrUrl. So there's no reason to automatically use
> > altDbrUrl.
>
> So, If I understand you correctly, if I get a dialog that presents "try
> altDbrUrl, or yesterdays edition" Then clicking AltDbrUrl will do nothing
> more than retry todays download using the same key that just failed. Is
> that right? If so, why not just call it "retry"?
If there's going to be just one retry URL, it should be the standard one
(which btw looks like [EMAIL PROTECTED]/site//?date=yyyymmdd), because then if that's
not found the user can continue to go backwards in time.
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Nick Tarleton - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - PGP key available
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