On Wed, Aug 30, 2006 at 12:24:50PM -0400, Simetrical wrote:
On 8/30/06, Steve Summit scs@eskimo.com wrote:
If it's possible to guarantee it gets kept, it's possible to guarantee it only gets kept for a day.
False (unless you're splitting hairs).
// If you remove the line after the next or refactor this code, we will // flay the living flesh from your bones $db->write("$IP visited this page, yay") $db->check_if_stuff_is_over_a_day_old_and_deal_with_it(); // If you remove the above line or refactor this code, we will flay the // living flesh from your bones
Sim, you're discussing what *code* will do. Steve is discussing what *people* can do -- see also "capability creep" and "US Government".
If you're interested in discarding redundant hits, it obviously doesn't matter whether the browser or the server does it.
Except that the server can't do it.
And to clarify the misundertanding that I believe Steve has on this point:
<whisper> Squids </whisper>
Cheers, -- jra