Re: lynx-dev proposal for LYK_SCRIPT and patch

[Philip Webb]

990705 Klaus Weide guessed: 
> the reason for SOURCE_CACHE was to provide a backup for those situations
> where Lynx had to reload the document because some setting changed,
> not for any other cases of reloading.
> Right?  At least that seems to be what it's doing.

not really: it was introduced during your  347 day  leave (smile).
the other part of the motivation was for occasions
when users want to check the source using  \ ,
which used to cause regular gripes & calls for cacheing the source.
 
> If that is the case, then it *is* wasteful to always make a copy
> for all http: documents.  I need the cache copy only for a few of them.

it's not wasteful for users who want to investigate possibly bad HTML.
 
> My main point was availability of a cache file may not be a constant,
> so it would be good not to depend on it for an unrelated task/feature.

correct.

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