Re: keep-cache-if-not-found vs. new redirects

amb-Uxr6IM1mbv2TY6FTCsQk+9Bc4/[email protected] (Andrew M. Bishop)
Newsgroups gmane.network.wwwoffle.user
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Dan Jacobson <[email protected]> writes:

> Gentlemen,
> # [<URL-SPEC>] keep-cache-if-not-found = yes | no
> #         If the remote server replies with an error message or a redirection
> #         while there is a cached version with status 200 the previously cached
> #         version should be kept (default=no).
> should be divided into two cases, "gone" and "302 redirect", otherwise
> if I use "yes", online there I am browsing the new location, but
> later offline, there I am browsing the old location.

The purpose of the option is to stop another URL replacing the one
that is in the cache if it has been removed or replaced with a
redirection.  While it is possible to make this option apply to all
pages in the cache I think that the orignal purpose of it was to
preserve specific archives of pages from selected hosts.

-- 
Andrew.
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