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Re: lynx-dev on caching (long)


From: dickey
Subject: Re: lynx-dev on caching (long)
Date: Tue, 24 Nov 1998 20:56:06 -0500 (EST)

> > hierarchy can make - what kinds of parameters are needed, what modes of 
> > operation one could think of etc.  With necessary modifications of course, 
> > for the program-internal rather than over-the-network case.  Note that 
> > HTTP caching is completely based on the style B communication (above). 
> > (Squid caches talking ICP with each other are something else.) 
>  
> > In libwww 5.2, I find in <http://www.w3.org/Library/src/HTReq.html>: 
>  
> Well, I am highly impressed with libwww 5.2, 
> it was completely rewritten and now the code clean and well documented 

otoh, using it would require rewriting large chunks of lynx - since
lynx and the libwww have diverged.
  
> I am not optimistic in moving Lynx to libwww 5.2 - 
> although they are mutually similar there are lots of differences 
> (chartrans implementation, for example), this is a long-standing work 
> for guru. Also new libwww have a different documentations/comments style: 
> lynx's code looks hairy but self-documented (some how). 

yes. that, the integration with local filesystems (Fote made some comments
about the dired mode).  It probably doesn't port well - the impression I
get is that it's not well tested outside of GNU C and make.
  
> Is it possible to implement a _part_ of new libwww, 
> its HTTP/1.1 core including cache ? 

You would probably have to restructure the existing lynx, move the newer
(Lynx-specific or enhanced) functions out of libwww and align the remaining
libwww with the libwww 5.  That's a lot of work.


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Thomas E. Dickey
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