Comments on: CMU Web Publishing is Strange

By: Turadg

Turadg — Fri, 16 Sep 2011 02:34:21 +0000

Oh thanks for the warning!

By: nathanvan

nathanvan — Fri, 16 Sep 2011 02:16:28 +0000

That makes total sense about curl. Thanks for cleaning up the script and putting it on github.

The problem with contrib is that it is *really* slow and can’t handle any kind of load. When I tried to use it for my Amazon Mechanical Turk experiments, even just a few Turkers hitting my page simultaneously dropped the response to a crawl. It was enough to get me to keep using the weird andrew publishing workflow.

By: Turadg

Turadg — Fri, 16 Sep 2011 02:10:05 +0000

Oh, and I just discovered that if you use http://www.contrib.andrew.cmu.edu you don’t have to publish at all. The CMU Computer Club serves it directly from the Andrew AFS: http://www.club.cc.cmu.edu/services

Plus they execute CGI and PHP scripts:
http://www.contrib.andrew.cmu.edu/~taleahma/info.php

By: Turadg

Turadg — Fri, 16 Sep 2011 02:05:32 +0000

Hey Nathan! I googled to see if Andrew supports rsync and your page was the top hit. Small world.

Thanks for writing up the shell commands. Here’s a version that uses `curl` to save the `rm`: https://gist.github.com/1221003