[Popcon-developers] Uploading 1.26 ?

Petter Reinholdtsen pere@hungry.com
Sat, 19 Feb 2005 23:26:05 +0100


[Bill Allombert]
> For me the main problem is how to decide to use http rather than
> email.  If the cronjob run when the machine is offline, there is not
> mailqueue to save us, and anacron will not delay cron until we are
> online.

Yes, it is not obvious how to handle this.

One way to double our chances is to first try HTTP, and if this fail,
send an email.  This way the chances to get the submission through to
the server are a lot higher than when only trying only one of these
methods.