Tom,
You are correct...
Jeff
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On Thu, 25 Sep 2003, Tom McDermott wrote:
>
> On Thu, 25 Sep 2003, David Knight wrote:
>
> > I thought .* by itself was OK on a request line.
> > It was only when the .* is followed by something
> > (i.e. .*\.windprofiler) that caused performance problems.
>
> This was my understanding as well. Please clarify.
>
>
> > (instead of requesting for example .*\.windprofiler
> > we should instead request \.windprofiler which should
> > yield the same result)
> > Is this not correct?
> > Thanks for clearing this up for me. On some feeds we do request
> > .* and I want to make sure we're not making inefficient requests...
>
> I'm sure most REQUEST lines are for ".*", so if it really is inefficient
> to use ".*" alone, we need to know what pattern to use for each feed
> instead.
>
> Tom
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