Re: How to don't get POSTs

Andrew M. Bishop <amb-Uxr6IM1mbv2TY6FTCsQk+9Bc4/[email protected]> wrote:
> Joerg Sommer <[email protected]> writes:
>
>> Boinc a tool for searching small green man in outerspace (Seti@Home)
>> sends its data with POSTs to the server. While I'm offline it fills me
>> the outgoing cache with POST requests. And a request gets everytime a
>> differnt POST id, which undermine the concept of wwwoffles offline
>> request/online fetching.
>> 
>> How can disable caching of POST requests while offline?
>
> You cannot disable the POST itself, but you could set the URL that the
> POST is sent to as 'dont-request = yes' in the OfflineOptions section.

Why does confirm-requests not work?

>> And does it make
>> sense to save POSTs, when they ever get different ids and I can never
>> access them offline?
>
> They are very useful because they let you fill in a form on a web page
> when you are offline and post the results back.  When you go online
> again you will be able to find the result in the index (e.g. lasttime
> index).

But why is the id everytime different? If the id is a hash about the post
data I get the same result with the same data. This way seti can work
offline.

Jörg.

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