From owner-freebsd-isp Thu Sep 3 01:38:27 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id BAA13212 for freebsd-isp-outgoing; Thu, 3 Sep 1998 01:38:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from hecate.webcom.com (hecate.webcom.com [209.1.28.39]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id BAA13165; Thu, 3 Sep 1998 01:38:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from u@webcom.com) Received: from kigal.webcom.com (kigal.webcom.com [209.1.28.57]) by hecate.webcom.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) with SMTP id VAA27380; Wed, 27 Feb 2036 21:23:36 -0800 Received: from [199.183.207.57] by inanna.webcom.com (WebCom SMTP 1.2.1) with SMTP id 3340035; Thu Sep 03 01:36 PDT 1998 Message-Id: <35EE7E99.298E@webcom.com> Date: Thu, 03 Sep 1998 04:33:45 -0700 From: Graeme Tait Organization: Echidna X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.02 (Win16; I) Mime-Version: 1.0 To: Gary Palmer , isp@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: info@boatbooks.com Subject: Re: Anyone running FrontPage with Apache on stable/current? References: <10090.904796602@gjp.erols.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Gary Palmer wrote: > > Bill Fumerola wrote in message ID > : > > Three words: Active Server Pages, try them in *nix. > > ASPs should be discouraged at any rate. They are not cachable content. Perhaps > M$ likes having more traffic to their web servers than they really need, but > as an ISP I'd rather keep the traffic local... I have never understood why this needs to be (that the content is not cacheable). For content that is quasi-static, why could not the ASP pages be served so as to be cacheable? Perhaps pages could be served with an expiry date (or last modified date) set from a database field on a per-page basis. This could also allow a intelligent response to if-modified-since requests that would avoid the need to transfer content unnecessarily. We have an application where a very large number of HTML pages are presently generated offline from a database every month and uploaded. I want to change this to a system where the database itself is uploaded monthly, and the pages generated on the fly. But it is essential that the pages appear static, and be listable by search engines. In the majority of pages, the content changes relatively little - it is rather details like pricing that change frequently. Any suggestions? -- Graeme Tait - Echidna To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message