Re: Re: How to don't get POSTs

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?
> >
> > The confirm-requests option should work just as well as dont-request.
> > Are you saying that there is a problem with confirm-requests?
> 
> Yes. I set "confirm-requests = yes" (for all) and excluded some URLs. But
> I could ever make a POST request and it was cached without confirmation.

For some reason (that I cannot remember at the moment) a POST request
will not obey the confirm-requests config file option.

Even if I did make it obey this option then you would never be able to
confirm a POST request because it is not possible to request the same
URL again.

I think that setting dont-request is clearer about the meaning of the
option that confirm-requests (you want to block them, not confirm
them).  I have to try and work out why the code is the way that it is
(and fix it).

-- 
Andrew.
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