Re: Re[2]: Some proxy needs

In message <6d282afce1d51732a6d9cdcfdcac0a8a.squirrel@arekh.dyndns.org>, "Nicol
as Mailhot" writes:

>Then if the protocol does not permit signaling progress, what the solution
>would be? (educating users does not work, they've been brainwashed to refresh
>at the slightest pause)

I think it is a design-mistake for the proxy to react to the forced
reload of a huge object, when is already busy processing that object
and have not delivered it to any clients yet.

Given that the client has not seen the object yet, the client has
no basis for conclusing it is out of date, so the reloads should
be ignored, the requests queued and once the object is processed,
you can deliver it.

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Received on Sunday, 8 April 2012 20:35:35 UTC