Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Mon, 27 Feb 2006 14:52:38 -0500 | | From | Yoanis Gil Delgado <> | | Subject | Re: creating live virtual files by concatenation |
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Jan Engelhardt wrote:
>>Now let us say I am creating sort of a virtual text file (code.js) >>that is a live-concatenation of these files: >># concatenate tooltip.js banner.js foo.js code.js >> >>Note I am not talking about the cat(1) utility. I am thinking of >>code.js be always a live concatenated version of these three, so when >>I modify one file, the live-version is also modified. >> >>What puprose I might have? Network-related. Say, I have an HTML file >>that includes these three files in its code. >> >> >> >Try FUSE. > > Yes that's the best solution. Email me if you have a question about how to accomplish this. Here at our school we have created a fuse filesystem that "glues" files in a single one.
> > >>If I had a live-concatenated file, I could reference it in the HTML file >>so that the browser does not have to download three files but just one. >> >>This would surely reduce network overhead of downloading the same amount >>of data but within just one connection, reduce resource usage on the client >>and possibly (depending on implementation) reduce the cost of accessing >>three individual files on the server. >> >> >> >Have you ever heard of persistent connections with HTTP/1.1? > > >Jan Engelhardt > >
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