Over zealous counter from Anselm Baird_Smith on 1996-10-25 (www-jigsaw@w3.org from September to October 1996)

From: Anselm Baird_Smith <abaird@www43.inria.fr>
Date: Fri, 25 Oct 1996 17:24:20 +0200 (MET DST)
To: Weiping Hu <whu@adonis39.et.deakin.edu.au>
Cc: www-jigsaw@w3.org
Message-Id: <199610251524.RAA26523@www43.inria.fr>

Weiping Hu writes:
 > Now that I've 'discover' the .shtml extension, started to experiment the
 > CounterFilter.  It worked fine on a single file, say
 > /User/Overview.shtml.  However, when I then put the filter on the
 > dicrectory /User, I found the counter started to increase by 3, instead
 > of 1.  Suspecting that it might be because of the counter I put on the
 > index file /User/Overview.shtml, I deleted the CounterFilter from
 > Overview.shtml.  But the problem is still there.  Every time I reload
 > the file /User/Overview.shtml, the counter increases by 3.  

Putting the filter on a directory means that the counter will be
incremented each time the directory is traversed by a lookup
operation, would this explain that counting burst ?

Anselm.

Received on Friday, 25 October 1996 11:24:35 UTC