still trying to purge

[Eirik Øverby]

On Feb 20, 2008, at 9:46 PM, Charlie Farinella wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> For the moment I have given up trying to do the http purge thing and  
> am
> trying to find a workaround.  I have the following shell script:
>
> ==
> #!/bin/sh
> host=127.0.0.1
> port=6082
> cmd="url.purge"
> param=".*"

Try escaping the * there. It's probably using every file in CWD as  
parameters as you don't quote them further down.

/Eirik

>
>
> echo open ${host} ${port}
> sleep 1
> echo ${cmd} ${param}
> sleep 3
> echo exit
> ==
>
> The result of this script is:
> ==
> ./clearcache.sh | telnet
> telnet> Trying 127.0.0.1...
> Connected to localhost.localdomain (127.0.0.1).
> Escape character is '^]'.
> 105 20
> Too many parameters
> Connection closed by foreign host.
> ==
>
> If I put any other command in the script, it works fine.  If I
> use 'url.purge' as the command, but '^/$' as the parameter, that works
> fine.  Only the '*' or '.*' throws the 'too many parameters' error.
> What is the correct command and format to purge the entire cache?
>
> If anyone has a solution for me I would be very appreciative.  If I
> cannot find an automated way for the web development people to clear
> this cache at will, I'm going to have to try to set up Apache or Squid
> to do the caching and I'd just rather not do that.  :-)
>
> -- 
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> Charles Farinella
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