2009/08/18 - Apache AxKit has been retired.

On Sun, Sep 15, 2002 at 10:55:56PM +0200, J?rg Walter wrote:
> On Saturday 28 September 2002 06:05, Robert Barta wrote:
> >							    When exactly
> > should you write a 'provider'?
> 
> You would use XSP if the act of calling the page may have side-effects.
One 
> example is a form mailer, another one would be the entry form of your
blog. 
> For "constant" access to some data, a provider is much more useful, as
you 
> only need to provide a last-modified timestamp and get automatic caching
for
> all pages based on your provider.

So a provider is sort-of a specialized XSP...

> For example, I use a mysql TIMESTAMP field on all SQL tables I intend to
serve 
> through a provider, getting the required last-modified timestamp for
'free'. 

Clever. Thx!

\rho