- From: W.Sylwestrzak@icm.edu.pl <wojsyl1@icm.edu.pl>
- Date: Wed, 11 Jun 1997 04:29:14 +0200 (MET DST)
- To: Drazen Kacar <dave@srce.hr>
- Cc: W.Sylwestrzak@icm.edu.pl, dwm@xpasc.com, dave@srce.hr, martin@mrrl.lut.ac.uk, http-wg@cuckoo.hpl.hp.com, ircache@nlanr.net
I wrote: > > > Unfortunately most of the servers practicing this today > > try to perform a 'naive' content negotiation, which effectively > > uses redirects to other urls. This is of course wrong, > > because it unnecessarily expands the url addressing space, > > thus making caching less effective. Drazen Kacar: > It isn't, because you'll suffer one redirection, but the target is > cacheable. Compare it to serving different variants right away with > ensuring that it won't be cacheable if the client is HTTP/1.0 compliant. I never claimed it's not cacheable. All I say is that this unnecessarily multiplies the number of cached objects, which is bad. --w
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