On 9/22/20 11:10 PM, J. Landman Gay via use-livecode wrote:

There's more to it than that; the server runs a cron job hourly that indexes all its files and creates AWS secure URLs for each. The app downloads that lookup file on demand. When the user selects a name from a list, the selection is munged to match the server name and the download URL is obtained from the cron job's lookup file.


LOL. This is starting to remind me of Hal Draper's classic
"Ms Fnd in a Lbry". Been out of print since 1985, but online:

https://folk.universitetetioslo.no/knuthe/kuriosa/draper.pdf

--
 Mark Wieder
 ahsoftw...@gmail.com

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