Re: Goodbye CGI support
| | It seems like most people run News Clipper periodically, in the background, | instead of having it update the web page on the fly as a CGI script. thats the way I use it.. it would take too long to run all the handlers I have on my news page. Takes about 5 minutes to download all the stuff, with timeouts, and such. TOO long to wait for a cgi to appear. I have it setup as a cron job, which ftp's it to the server, a couple times a day. - If you would like to unsubscribe from this mailing list send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the body "unsubscribe newsclipperlist YOUR_EMAIL_ADDRESS" (without the quotes) or use the form provided at http://www.NewsClipper.com/TechSup.htm#MailingList.
Re: Goodbye CGI support
On Thu, 21 Oct 1999, Chuck Heffner wrote: > speaking as a non-programmer, maintaining CGI Support is not an > issue with me at all. However, speaking as someone who loves > full-feature sets in comp programs, the ability to embed an > entire web site which dynamically runs off of a server-side > script is, um, delicious. I guess the big Q is how would this > change newsclipper, and how would it affect the people who use it > to embed news into their sites? That's just it. CGI doesn't do embedding (except if you frame the output, I guess). You can still call News Clipper using server-side includes, which should have the same effect. I confess I haven't tried this though. I'm trying to assess how many people actually use this feature. I suspect it's about 1% of the user base. > I suspect it's a minor issue, but as they say, "The Devil's in the details." Yeah. That's why I'm thinking it's not worth it. > P.S. It's silly, but how would this decision effect the newbie > content I've compiled in the GroundZero Guide? I just don't know > how removing CGI from newsclipper will effect its performance and > related problems. I won't affect it at all, I think. Speed will be the same, other functionality won't change, except that it will easier to add some features. :) David _ David Coppit [EMAIL PROTECTED] President, Spinnaker Software - If you would like to unsubscribe from this mailing list send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the body "unsubscribe newsclipperlist YOUR_EMAIL_ADDRESS" (without the quotes) or use the form provided at http://www.NewsClipper.com/TechSup.htm#MailingList.
Re: Goodbye CGI support
On Wed, 20 Oct 1999, Vikas Gupta wrote: > what do u mean by cgi support Exactly. No one uses it... Basically, you could call News Clipper as a CGI script: http://www.server.com/cgi-bin/NewsClipper.pl and it would update the first input file in your NewsClipper.cfg and display it. It seems like most people run News Clipper periodically, in the background, instead of having it update the web page on the fly as a CGI script. David _ David Coppit [EMAIL PROTECTED] President, Spinnaker Software - If you would like to unsubscribe from this mailing list send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the body "unsubscribe newsclipperlist YOUR_EMAIL_ADDRESS" (without the quotes) or use the form provided at http://www.NewsClipper.com/TechSup.htm#MailingList.
Goodbye CGI support
I'm dropping CGI support for the next version. Any complaints? David _ David Coppit [EMAIL PROTECTED] President, Spinnaker Software - If you would like to unsubscribe from this mailing list send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the body "unsubscribe newsclipperlist YOUR_EMAIL_ADDRESS" (without the quotes) or use the form provided at http://www.NewsClipper.com/TechSup.htm#MailingList.
