[ic] Timed-build and Locked-Out sessions.

[Kevin Walsh]

Carl Bailey <carl at triangleresearch.com> wrote:
> What we needed was a protection in the timed-build tag that prevents it 
> from writing a new file if do_lockout has been triggered.    We came up 
> with the following change to the timed_build tag in Interpolate.pm:
> 
> ---   Vend::Util::writefile(">file",$out,$opt);
> +++   Vend::Util::writefile(">$file", $out, $opt )
> +++      unless $Vend::Cfg->{VendURL} eq 'http://127.0.0.1';
> 
> We have tested this and it has worked successfully in our IC 5.4 
> environment.
> 
Spiders won't be using cookies, so they shouldn't read from, or create,
the [timed-build] cache at all.  Well, that's unless you're using the
force=1 parameter, of course.

All the same, your patch looks like a reasonable thing to be checking
for, but we might to check for it in a slightly different way.  Without
having tested it, I would suggest the following:

--- Interpolate.pm      30 Jul 2006 23:37:38 -0000      2.272
+++ Interpolate.pm      8 Aug 2006 01:41:56 -0000
@@ -5105,6 +5105,7 @@
        if (defined $opt->{if}) {
                $abort = 1 if ! $opt->{if};
        }
+       $abort = 1 if $Vend::Cfg->{VendURL} eq 'http://127.0.0.1';

        my $saved_file;
        if($opt->{scan}) {

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