[Gnu-arch-users] Tlacontrib contribution: Alternative to .listing files

[Jan Hudec]

Hello,

Few days ago it was suggested, that to avoid problems with stale
.listing files, the archive could be accessed via a cgi script, that
would create them on the fly and just cat everything else. So, here is
such a script:

Archive-Location: http://www.ucw.cz/~bulb/{archives}/pub-1
Revision: address@hidden/tlacontrib--bulb--1.3.0--patch-1

Please, consider mergeing it to tlacontrib.
(the branch is tagged of
address@hidden/tlacontrib--devo--1.3--patch-20)

Log message follows:

Revision: tlacontrib--bulb--1.3.0--patch-1
Archive: address@hidden
Creator: Jan Hudec <address@hidden>
Date: Wed Sep 22 13:04:01 CEST 2004
Standard-date: 2004-09-22 11:04:01 GMT
New-files: cgi/.arch-ids/=id cgi/.arch-ids/README.id
    cgi/.arch-inventory cgi/Makefile cgi/README
    cgi/arch.cgi.c
New-directories: cgi cgi/.arch-ids
New-patches: address@hidden/tlacontrib--bulb--1.3.0--patch-1
Summary: The arch.cgi program.
Keywords: 

    * cgi/arch.cgi.c: This CGI program provides alternative to
      =meta-info/http-blows for allowing access over plain HTTP. It
      takes one argument -- file to serve -- and just cats it, except
      for .listing files, that it makes up on the fly. So you don't
      risk them being stale in exchange for a performance penalty.

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                                                 Jan 'Bulb' Hudec 
<address@hidden>

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