Comments on: Coral links prevent mefi-effect

Coral links prevent mefi-effect

vacapinta — Sat, 28 Aug 2004 22:29:33 -0800

The future of the Internet? If your posted site is getting mefi'ed, you might consider also providing a link from Coral. Coral is a p2p network that replicates content across participating servers. Heres metafilter through Coral.

By: fvw

fvw — Sat, 28 Aug 2004 23:56:51 -0800

It's not really peer to peer, it's just distributed (they run a lot of servers in different places. From the clients point of view it's all still very much client-server). The archive.org wayback machine has been capable of doing something similar for a long time, though slightly less up to date as they don't work on-demand (the bright side being you can often access sites that are already down/gone). The wayback machine also scores points for rewriting links and images so that it works with absolute URLs too.

By: Keyser Soze

Keyser Soze — Sun, 29 Aug 2004 00:53:41 -0800

Sounds like an original idea.

By: triv

triv — Sun, 29 Aug 2004 03:08:11 -0800

it's a good alternative to the trusty ol' google cache anyway. thanks vacapinta.

By: caddis

caddis — Sun, 29 Aug 2004 05:47:28 -0800

Will this site allow reading of MetaFilter during its JRun errors? I take it the cache gets loaded as people request pages. So if enough of us casually read MeFi through this site will the cache be thus loaded for viewing when MeFi goes offline for a few hours? Or, is it so real time that the cache will get loaded with the JRun error page right away?

By: Grod

Grod — Sun, 29 Aug 2004 09:51:50 -0800

Ugh, that's what metafilter looks like when you aren't logged in. I miss the image free days.

By: trharlan

trharlan — Sun, 29 Aug 2004 11:02:42 -0800

You're not kidding, Grod. I haven't logged out in a while. Site design by Zubaz.

By: reklaw

reklaw — Sun, 29 Aug 2004 11:33:52 -0800

I'm pretty sure it would cache the Jrun error, but then I don't know often they have it set to check for new versions of sites.

By: fvw

fvw — Sun, 29 Aug 2004 15:21:31 -0800

They check (at most) every five minutes (but if everything is ok, nobody will go through the cache and so it'll only attempt caching when it's dead. I don't know what HTTP code MeFi returns for JRun errors, but as long as it's not a 200 ("OK") the cache should realise it's not the proper data and not cache it.

By: reklaw

reklaw — Sun, 29 Aug 2004 17:49:46 -0800

Well, it's not like we're going to have to wait long to find out.

By: caddis

caddis — Tue, 31 Aug 2004 05:36:10 -0800

We have found out - it will not work.