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[Mike Morris <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 02/23/2015 02:44 AM, Jaap Karssenberg wrote:
> Looks like a bug in the caching to me - will look into that. Could you 
> report it in the bug tracker?

Certainly, I'll do this later today.

> The expected behavior is that the webserver sees all page changes 
> after a page is safed and the browser is refreshed.

Excellent!

> (Which makes me think - is there a use case for a web template that 
> forces reloading every x seconds from javascript ?)

Yes, I can think of some. And it would be cool if it's easy... but there 
are also plenty of options (plugins and such) for browsers to force 
refreshing of arbitrary pages, so I would consider it a "nice to have", 
not a requirement, even for the above mentioned use cases....

Thanks Jaap!



> Thanks,
>
> Jaap
>
>
>
> On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 11:49 PM, Mike Morris <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
> <mailto:mike@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
>
>     On 02/18/2015 09:32 PM, WEHLER Andreas wrote:
>
>         Hi.
>
>         Web server has to be restarted for changes. You cannot watch some
>         editor typing in the keyboard with a remote web server ...
>
>
>     I don't need to see the actual editing, down to keystroke level,
>     as in a remote desktop session. My use case at present is working
>     in a conference room with no projector; I just want other people
>     to be able to see the work in progress in their browsers,
>     refreshed every few seconds or minutes.
>
>     Since Zim auto-saves on updates, would it be possible to flush the
>     webserver's cache for a modified page as it does the save? Then
>     the webserver would be as up to date as the disk image, which is
>     more than enough for my use case.
>
>     I assume the webserver has some kind of cache, otherwise it
>     couldn't serve the pre-saved version of a page, right? I don't
>     image there are many users with high enough traffic on the zim
>     webserver that clearing the cache would be a big problem. But it
>     could also be made a preference.
>
>     Is this harder than I imagine it, or could it be a reasonable
>     feature request?
>
>     TIA,
>
>     MikeM
>
>
>
>
>
>
>         Regards,
>
>              Andreas
>
>
>
>         On 18.02.2015 21:55, Mike Morris wrote:
>
>             On 02/18/2015 12:45 PM, Mike Morris wrote:
>
>                 However, when I update a document it crashes the
>                 webserver. Upon
>                 restarting the webserver, the changes are available on
>                 the webpage.
>
>             Sorry - the webserver "crash" was apparently another
>             problem, I can't
>             get it to repeat today.
>
>             But updates do not propagate to the running webserver....
>             so I'm still
>             wondering if requiring a webserver restart to update the
>             browser  is
>             intended behavior.
>
>             Thanks
>
>
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