- From: Diwakar Shetty <diwakar.shetty@oracle.com>
- Date: Tue, 06 May 2003 18:46:01 +0530
- To: Tim Tailor <tim.tailor@gmx.net>
- CC: ietf-http-wg@w3.org
Dont we have "Modified-Since" and "Etags" to do this job already ? What will "hash" do extra which is not being done currently by the above mentioned two mechanisms ?? -- Diwakar Tim Tailor wrote: > Hi there! > > I just had an idea how traffic on the web could be dramatically reduced. > May be that it is already implemented in some way and I just do not know > about it. > > Now the idea: > Integrate a request command to http which will be replied by the hash of > the page only. Based on this information the webbrowser or proxy could > decide whether it needs to download the whole page or not. Moreover a > html tag could indicate pseudo-new information like timestamps and make > this hash even more effective. > > That's it. Little idea, lot of work and great improvement (at least I > assume that, otherwise I would not bother anybody with it). Thanks for > your time and I would be glad to get some comments on that. > > Bye Tim
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