Re: [RFC PATCH 10/10] gitweb: Show appropriate "Generating..." page when regenerating cache (WIP)
From: Jakub Narebski <hidden>
Date: 2016-06-15 22:48:06
On Sun, 24 Jan 2010, Petr Baudis wrote:
I have stupid question, common to both the original patch and this RFC.quoted
[RFC PATCH 10/10] gitweb: Show appropriate "Generating..." page when regenerating cache (WIP)Just why is a "Generating..." page appropriate? I have to admit I hate it; can you please at least make it configurable? Why is it needed at all? It [...] confuses non-interactive HTTP clients [...]
First, if I understand the code correctly HTTP clients which do not
honor metaredirect (http-equiv refresh) would get page which looks
the following
<html>
Generating...
</html>
<html>
Gitweb page
</html>
Second, gitweb can always check User-Agent header, and serve
"Generating..." page only to web browsers:
unless (defined $cgi->user_agent() &&
$cgi->user_agent() =~ /\b(Mozilla|Opera)\b/i) {
return;
}
or something like that.
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Jakub Narebski
Poland