- From: Yves Lafon <ylafon@w3.org>
- Date: Mon, 11 Oct 1999 21:38:07 +0200 (MET DST)
- To: Roland Mainz <Roland.Mainz@informatik.med.uni-giessen.de>
- cc: W3 Jigsaw Mailinglist <www-jigsaw@w3.org>
On Sun, 10 Oct 1999, Roland Mainz wrote:
>
> Hi !
>
> ----
>
> Yesterday I digged out a problem with jigsaw:
> It seems that directory listings contains file (resources) which have
> been removed long-long ago, wasting the database.
>
> I wrote a small fix in HTTPFrame.java's getDirectoryListing(Request);
> which removes non-existing file resources (removing other resources may
> be tricky - servlets for example may exists only as a "virtual"
> HTTP name and not on disk at that location...).
> Better would be to find a genernal way of automatic cleanup (which
> should be enabled as default). The following solution only keeps the
> directory listing clean&&valid:
Accessing to the deleted resource will automatically remove them, but
doing this here is also valid as it cleans the store along with displaying
only valid information to the user.
I added your patch, but it won't appear today in the cvs base, as the
network is down :(
Thanks!
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Received on Tuesday, 12 October 1999 03:04:38 UTC