Changes between Version 4 and Version 5 of ServerComponents


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Timestamp:
Jul 23, 2007, 1:27:18 PM (17 years ago)
Author:
Nicolas
Comment:

<link> syntax to specify schedulers

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  • ServerComponents

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    2525 that give the URLs of the project's scheduling servers. These tags can be embedded within HTML comments. The BOINC core client reads and parses the master page to locate scheduling servers. If at any point it is unable to connect to any scheduling server for a project, it rereads the master page. This mechanism lets a project move or add scheduling servers.
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     27Some ISPs remove HTML comments from downloaded pages. To avoid problems with that, an alternative syntax is allowed:
    2728{{{
    28 #!comment commented out for now (I replaced the braces below with parentheses to avoid closing this comment)
     29<link rel="boinc_scheduler" href="http://host.domain.edu/cgi/scheduler">
     30}}}
     31You should still use the `<scheduler>` format too, since older clients won't parse this new syntax.
    2932
    30 Note that some ISPs remove HTML comments from downloaded pages, to make the files smaller and save bandwidth. To avoid problems with that, an alternative syntax is allowed:
    31 (((
    32 <link rel="boinc_scheduler" href="http://host.domain.edu/cgi/scheduler">
    33 )))
    34 }}}
    35 
    36 The [MakeProject make_project] script creates a master page in `project/html/user/index.php`. This file includes the file 'schedulers.txt', which contains the list of `<scheduler>` elements.
     33The [MakeProject make_project] script creates a master page in `project/html/user/index.php`. This file includes the file 'schedulers.txt', which contains the list of `<scheduler>` (and `<link>`) elements.