rhn-applet V2.1.5

[Daniel Veillard]

On Mon, Jan 19, 2004 at 02:07:03PM -0500, William Hooper wrote:
> 
> Scott Talbot said:
> > When I saw your reply, I re-installed the new applet, and re-booted.
> > Seems to be working ok now.
> >
> > I have never seen the applet auto detect upgrades, even before I added
> > an ftp repository (not many mirrors available in the west-us).  I was
> > curious to know where to set the auto check-in at.  I really only need 1
> > per day or 3 per week not every 4 hours.
> 
> IIRC Daniel said that it was hard-coded in the source somewhere because of
> abuse when it used to be configurable via the config file.

  Right. Anyway the applet uses the caching and If-Modified-Since 
capabilities of HTTP to minimize traffic, so far nobody complained because
once every 4hours was too high for a given server.

Daniel

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