Hi,

I'm working on an internal site that links to this amazingly slow server. The server is also internal so we link to it like any other hard drive. The thing is that there are documents on this server that we need to look up and from time to time they would be updated or even moved. I was wondering if there was a way to manually cache the file and only download it when the timestamp of the file has changed. Is there another language that I should be looking into for this, such as PERL? I just don't know if our server has PERL or not... so I'm sticking with Javascript for now.

Or is there another solution that I should be looking into?

Thanks!

Allan

If you're using IIS there's caching options built-in. But then at the same time, it would be cached on the slow server anyway. So really there's no point.

You could set up a batch file to synchronize the files on the slow server over to a folder on a faster one, and schedule it with task scheduler. Or in the case of a Linux/Unix environment write up a shell script and set up a cron job to run the script.