Re: Cache behavior in the absence of a Fresh-until: header from Steve Davies on 1996-01-10 (http-caching-historical@w3.org from January 1996)

From: Steve Davies <steve@iafrica.com>
Date: Wed, 10 Jan 1996 16:56:56 +0200 (GMT+0200)
To: Ari Luotonen <luotonen@netscape.com>
Cc: Koen Holtman <koen@win.tue.nl>, mogul@pa.dec.com, drtr1@cus.cam.ac.uk, http-caching@pa.dec.com
Message-Id: <Pine.LNX.3.91.960110165552.17469A-100000@riscey.iafrica.com>

On Wed, 10 Jan 1996, Ari Luotonen wrote:

> Harvest Cache Daemon and others that I know of use only the
> CacheRefreshInterval; they lack the lm-factor which is very useful in
> catching documents for which the default max-uncheck would be too
> high.

At least since I have been using Harvest (1.4 beta 5) it is able use the 
Last Modified to adjust cache retention.

Steve Davies

Received on Wednesday, 10 January 1996 15:11:31 UTC