I have a frame window which displays a html page based on the contents of a data binary file. There are a number of these data files, so I use an index to display the html version of which ever file, in the output frame. So suppose i have five different html pages I can display in my output frame, is it possible to use cgi to generate five html pages that can be sent to the client along with the parent frame. THerefore if i decide to view the fifth file for the second time, the browser will display the locally stored version of this file. At the moment the index is given the url of a cgi file, so each time a page is indexed a new version is downloaded from the server(this is not a html file, but cgi prints instead). I dont consider this atall efficient
It might also be an idea to use a log file at the server which indicates when each file was last updated. If the locally stored file is current then theres no need to download a new version.

Im not at all sure about any of this so if anyone could shed some light on it I would be grateful
THANX Baz

In reply to displaying html pages on the fly, efficiently. by Anonymous Monk

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