Not using *.dat-files as cache

[LukasCBossert]

My setup is that I have the bibtexbrowser-files on a server and I reuse this "instance" for displaying a bibliography on different pages. For this I load a *.bib-file from a GitLab-Page, where this is daily updated.

However the updated bibliography is not shown in the bibtexbrowser, since on the server there is a (or multiple) file like bibtexbrowser_013bd0f50633d58f93e199ecd0cb442c.dat generated. It seems like this works as a backup/cache.

How can I get rid of those .dat-files in the sense that bibtexbrowser would always load the (update) remote .bib-file?

UPDATE:

I see now the part responsible for creating the dat-files.

  // ---------------------------- HANDLING caching of compiled bibtex files
  // for sake of performance, once the bibtex file is parsed
  // we try to save a "compiled" in a txt file
  $compiledbib = 'bibtexbrowser_'.md5($bibtex_filenames).'.dat';

What can I add in the bibtexbrowser.local.php to prevent this?

[monperrus]

do you mean you load the bib via an HTTP url?

[LukasCBossert]

Yes, I found out that commenting out $compiledbib = 'bibtexbrowser_'.md5($bibtex_filenames).'.dat'; bibtexbrowser will always load the bibfile from the url-source. But I am not sure if this has any side effect.s

[monperrus]

OK. Just added support for this: https://github.com/monperrus/bibtexbrowser/pull/129

Does it work for you?

[LukasCBossert]

Thanks for the quick feature request-add in. As far as I can see this works fine.

[monperrus]

strange, it works for me. what's the error in /var/log/apache2/error.log?

[LukasCBossert]

Yes, it works - I had something wrong on my end (and deleted the comment then).

[monperrus]

ok, thanks!

[monperrus]

closed by #129