- From: Anthony Bryan <anthonybryan@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2012 15:03:57 -0400
- To: Nicolas Mailhot <nicolas.mailhot@laposte.net>
- Cc: ietf-http-wg@w3.org, Henrik Nordstrom <henrik@henriknordstrom.net>, Jack Bates <jack.bates@gmail.com>
On Sun, Apr 8, 2012 at 8:14 AM, Nicolas Mailhot <nicolas.mailhot@laposte.net> wrote: > I'll attempt a quick summary of what's been written on the list those past weeks > > A proxy needs: > > 5. a way for distribution sites to signal a resource is duplicated on a CDN, > and what the root resource is (systems like sourceforge are killing caching, > every new request is redirected to a different distribution server) some distribution sites already use metalink (HTTP=RFC 6249, XML=RFC 5854) for showing where resources are duplicated. as mentioned privately, unfortunately RFC 6249 is silent on how a proxy is supposed to behave when encountering metalinks. any suggestions on how this should work would be helpful. we hope to have a student working on the proxy side of things for Google summer of code this year. :) -- (( Anthony Bryan ... Metalink [ http://www.metalinker.org ] )) Easier, More Reliable, Self Healing Downloads
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