Solène wrote in
<3311e74f-1ad8-49b3-96d7-3f3c7f2af...@perso.pw>:
|27 févr. 2022 19:37:20 j...@bitminer.ca:
|
|> Would it be too much to ask to defend the (poor) web master against
|> own-goal errors?
|>
|> That is, approximately:
|>
|> if ((access(gzpath, R_OK) == 0) &&
|> (stat(gzpath, &gzst) == 0) &&
|> (gzst->st_mtim.tv_sec >=
|> st->st_mtim.tv_sec)) { /* new test */
|> path = gzpath; st = &gzst; kv_add(&resp->http_headers,
|> "Content-Encoding", "gzip");
|> }
|>
|> (apologies for formatting errors)
|>
|> In english: the gz file must be the same age as or newer than the
|> original.
|>
|> My assumption being that "static" files are not always static.
|> And correctly updating .gz files requires a bit of a delete-update-recre\
|> ate
|> dance.
|I'd prefer not have much logic for this so it's easier to understand \
|for admins. This feels wrong to serve a file or another depending on \
|their timestamp.
Sorry for stepping into this again, but lighttpd compress uses
a special folder for this, like this ambiguities cannot happen.
--steffen
|
|Der Kragenbaer, The moon bear,
|der holt sich munter he cheerfully and one by one
|einen nach dem anderen runter wa.ks himself off
|(By Robert Gernhardt)
