[REBOL] Re: bizarre CGI script behaviour
From: gchiu:compkarori at: 7-Jan-2001 20:17
On Sun, 7 Jan 2001 17:39:09 +1100
"Brett Handley" <[brett--codeconscious--com]> wrote:
> Well it is good news in the sense of more information :)
>
> I've never done CGI but the questions arise...
>
> Why is the cache calling a CGI and can you suggest to it
> not to?
I don't know. I have asked my ISP to investigate. However,
it does place a cloud over my plans to run multiple CGI
scripts on my web server orchestrated by a cron process
running at home.
> Why is the cache unsatisfied by your script so that it
> calls it again and
> again?
>
I suspect that their cache server is faulty.
> Is there a "don't cache me" type output header in CGI?
>
In http, there is. It tells the browser not to cache the
page, and to fetch it from the server. Browsers are
supposed to honour this, but whether cache servers do ...
> If you were doing database inserts with this script it
> could be a very
> unhappy situation as it stands.
It was pretty unhappy as it was - the scripts were emailing
a weather and tv report to a list. I was being mail bombed
by my own programs :-( After calling it once this
afternoon, the ISP's cache program has tried to call it 20x,
and is still trying ...
--
Graham Chiu
