[Dancer-users] Conditional HTTP proposal

[Oleg A. Mamontov]

On Feb 11, 2011, at 5:10 PM, Alexis Sukrieh wrote:

> Le 11/02/2011 15:07, franck a écrit :
>> 
>>     >> I create small patch to enhance static files serving functionality.
>>     >> During development process its important to refresh pages quickly.
>>     >> Conditional HTTP requests is the good choise.
>>     >> Seems like working, but needs more testing :)
>>     >
>>     > I'm not sure we should do that in Dancer's core. This can be very
>>    easily achieved with a Plack Middleware.
>>     >
>> 
>> 
>> This is clearly a Plack solution. If you really need, you can maybe
>> create a plugin for this, as soon as we add a new hook.
> 
> I would indeed not be opposed to a plugin, but I fear we open a pandora box: reimplementing any Plack middleware as Dancer plugin (which is clearly something we don't want to do).
> 
> Anyways, I don't think this should go in the core of Dancer. Dancer should remain as lightweight as possible, it's code should be very specific to what it does: dispatching request to the appropriate route handler.
> 
> I hope you understand my point of view ;)

I understand you clearly.
But few lines of code (with no extra dependencies) which make
developers' lives easier couldn't break lightweight of framework.
It's my opinion only, sorry.
For future i will have to patch new versions of Dancer myself :)


> 
> Regards,
> 
> -- 
> Alexis Sukrieh
> 


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