From: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Downloading long urls
Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2011 23:53:42 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D3A0E76.7000108@wxs.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LNX.2.01.1101211156290.8633@ybpnyubfg.ybpnyqbznva>
On 21-1-2011 6:15, Aditya Mahajan wrote:
> local cleanname = md5.HEX(original) -- gsub(original,"[^%a%d%.]+","-")
>
> appears to work correctly in my tests. The drawback of this scheme is
> that instead of
>
> \externalfigure[url ending with .png]
>
> one would have to use
>
> \externalfigure[url ending with .png][method=png]
>
> But \input 'url ending with .tex' still works
>
> The other drawback is the filenames in the cache will be gibberish. But
> on the plus side, you can use long urls.
>
> Do you think that the drawbacks outweigh the gains?
What exactly do you mean with the suffix issue? We can probably
normalize things a bit. Concerning the gibberish ... we can put a file
alongside with some info. I need to think a bit about it but indeed it
makes no sense to have redundant mechanisms.
Hans
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-01-21 22:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-01-16 5:12 Aditya Mahajan
2011-01-21 17:15 ` Aditya Mahajan
2011-01-21 22:53 ` Hans Hagen [this message]
2011-01-22 0:20 ` Aditya Mahajan
2011-01-23 20:22 ` Hans Hagen
2011-01-23 20:34 ` Aditya Mahajan
2011-01-23 20:54 ` Hans Hagen
2011-01-23 21:10 ` Aditya Mahajan
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