- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Tue, 28 Jul 2009 19:48:58 +0000 (UTC)
On Mon, 13 Jul 2009, Christian Nygaard wrote: > > What if one included hash sums of every binary file in html tags, plus > embedded hash sums in streaming file blocks, then the client would never > need to look at time stamps/expire headers to determine if it could > cache the objects. That would make caching very easy on mobile devices > with slow datalinks, make it possible for service providers to cache > objects globally for their customer base. One could also augment whole > code blocks with hash sums for example css this could possibly be more > efficient than time expire. > > <img src="example.jpg" md5="f2bd08fae5adb96c9befa02bddb4a90c"> > > <hash md5=bda497e29a81a038208ab94101e2e793" skipaheadlines=10> > <style> > .... > </style> > </hash> > > <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="external-style-sheet-file.css" > md5="dee0b8572297fe4e3b004cfe188ecad3"/> > no need to load that style sheet ever again if it's contents has not > changed. As others have said, it seems easier to just use the filename as the way to do this. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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