+2010-09-24 Julien Danjou <julien@danjou.info>
+
+ * url.texi (Disk Caching): Mention url-cache-expire-time,
+ url-cache-expired, and url-fetch-from-cache.
+
2010-09-21 Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
* gnus.texi (Expunging mailboxes): Update name of the expunging
@file{cache} of @code{url-configuration-directory}.
@end defopt
-@c Fixme: function v. option, but neither used.
-@c @findex url-cache-expired
-@c @defopt url-cache-expired
-@c This is a function to decide whether or not a cache entry has expired.
-@c It takes two times as it parameters and returns non-@code{nil} if the
-@c second time is ``too old'' when compared with the first time.
-@c @end defopt
-
@defopt url-cache-creation-function
The cache relies on a scheme for mapping URLs to files in the cache.
This variable names a function which sets the type of cache to use.
@code{url-cache-create-filename-human-readable}.
@end defopt
+@defopt url-cache-expire-time
+This variable defines a default time value to use as expire delay when
+checking if an URL has expired with @code{url-cache-expired}.
+@end defopt
+
@defun url-cache-create-filename-using-md5 url
Creates a cache file name from @var{url} using MD5 hashing.
This is creates entries with very few cache collisions and is fast.
@end smallexample
@end defun
+@defun url-cache-expired
+This is a function to decide whether or not a cache entry has expired.
+It takes a an URL as it first parameters and a expiration delay in
+second paramater. It returns non-@code{nil} if URL is not cached or is
+cached for more than the give expiration delay. If the delay is not
+used, @var{url-cache-expire-time} is used instead.
+@end defun
+
+@defun url-fetch-from-cache
+This function takes an URL as its first argument and then returns a
+buffer containing the data cached for the given URL.
+@end defun
+
@c Fixme: never actually used currently?
@c @defopt url-standalone-mode
@c @cindex Relying on cache