Good idea. A PR would be welcome.

If you have access to rsync, it effectively does this. it is a *much* faster
alternative to FTP.

On Sun, Mar 7, 2021 at 7:15 AM Karen K <[email protected]> wrote:

> From the logs of the web server I realize that huge amounts of data are
> uploaded that did not change. Today I looked into the code of the FTP
> uploader. I saw that some kind of check is included which file needs to be
> uploaded and which not. This is done by comparing the file timestamp.
>
> As the Cheetah generator re-creates a file every time it runs,
> unfortunately the file timestamp does not say anything whether the file
> content changed or not.
>
> So I wonder whether it it would be better to calculate a hash of the file
> contents and use that hash instead of file timestamp to decide about upload.
>
> The actual FTP Uploader does already maintain a file containing the file
> names of the uploaded files. So, may be, it is not that big step to include
> a hash into that file for comparison reasons.
>
> An example for a file that seldom changes is the about page. It only
> changes if an update of WeeWX or some skin was installed for the version
> number. Other examples are imprint, privacy statement, FAQs, or other
> general information.
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