Cirelle Enterprises wrote to Chris Santerre: > Chris, > > Why aren't you running rsync for the rules. > > That would cut down on bandwidth because if the rule > didn't change, no download and is much better than the wget
HTTP would do a good job of this itself, if RDJ took advantage of the If-Modified-Since request-header field, significant bandwidth could be saved. I'm 99% sure wget doesn't support that, or 304 replies (probably since it has no real concept of the local filesystem :-), but it'd be pretty trivial to implement with other tools/libraries not nearly as bulky as rsync. rsync is better for large hierarchies of many files. Using it to update a dozen or so files would be overkill, IMO. rsync is also quite resource intensive on server and client side. Chris, if you want, I can look at reworking RDJ to take advantage of If-Modified-Since, as long as it is (relatively) safe to assume that the modified dates change IFF there are new versions of each ruleset. All of the PARSE_NEW_VER_SCRIPTS stuff could still be preserved, I suppose. - Ryan -- Ryan Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> SaskNow Technologies - http://www.sasknow.com 901-1st Avenue North - Saskatoon, SK - S7K 1Y4 Tel: 306-664-3600 Fax: 306-244-7037 Saskatoon Toll-Free: 877-727-5669 (877-SASKNOW) North America
