Steffen Nurpmeso wrote in
<20220227225619.pzahj%stef...@sdaoden.eu>:
|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.
(And a simple cron job can remove things which have been unused
for a long time.)
--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)
