Smart Cache Manual
Chapter 14 Future

Smart Cache is now nearly finished and I hope, that there are no fatal bugs left. I did not get any fatal bug report in SC .40, only some people reports problems, which are caused by wrong configuration or misunderstanding; SC needs a better documentation, so I updated this manual.

Next versions will have:

• (sure) Look at Expire: header and try some new methods of eliminating them without producing bad side-efects with caching pages. Use special time in refresh_pattern for fine-tuning Expire ignoring?
• (sure) When browsing offline, allow marking pages for later download.
• Try to better integrate with my web grabber 'Smart Cache Loader'.
• GC will use real directory size (if host OS reports it)
• Workaround for Java dns caching bug, I have some ideas, but need some LAN/Inet for testing...
• (maybe) Redirect with more than one * (it allows make Redirects like *redir.cgi?* -> http://*)
• (maybe) support for multiple parent proxies. Who really needs this?
• (maybe) Internal support for FTP protocol. Parsing of FTP server LIST replies is a small problem. Why there are not standardized?
• (not worth of programming effort) auto support for HTTP-resume on aborted download; aborted downloads are now deleted. Web pages are quite short < 100K, so it does not make sense. For bigger or batch downloads use special programs which handles this better; for example, my Download Machine or wget.
• (never) Auto run Garbage collection. Have you ever heard something about cron?
• (never) GUI. Slows down things a lot. Smart Cache must not depends on graphics engine (Presentation Manager, X11, ..).
• (never) C/C++/Objective C version. Java works fine for me.
• (never) non Open Source version.