- From: Jon Wallis <j.wallis@wlv.ac.uk>
- Date: Mon, 08 Jan 1996 07:24:40 +0000
- To: Imagine More!!! <beyret@boun.edu.tr>
- Cc: www-html@w3.org
Ersin
At 19:43 06/01/96 -0500, you wrote:
>I was lurking for a long time enjoying your discussions and learning new
>things :)
>
>I was writing a perl cgi script for "last updates". I have almost finished
>it. It seems working. I was thinking to post it to the list but i saw a
>problem.
>
>The idea is to check the last edition date of the file (e.g the html file
>of the current page) and print out in the current page at a proper place
>as the page is being displayed by the visitor's browser.
[snip rest]
Wouldn't it be much easier to use SSI (Server Side Includes) to do this,
asuming your server does them. The server will be much more efficient than
any "on-the-fly" CGI-based page construction.
Regards
--
Jon Wallis Senior Lecturer in Computing / University Webmaster
School of Computing & I.T., University of Wolverhampton, UK - WV1 1SB
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Received on Monday, 8 January 1996 02:24:56 UTC