- From: Mark S. Friedman <msfriedm@us.oracle.com>
- Date: Thu, 24 Aug 1995 09:13:37 -0700
- To: www-talk@w3.org
Bob Wyman writes: > On a slightly different tack... It seems like this whole business of caching > is getting a bit complicated... It also seems that much of the data needed > to responsibly cache things is not covered in the HTTP specs themselves. > Rather, a serious cache writer would have to spend a good bit of time > reading www-talk, etc. to collect the necessary folk-lore. Adding alot of > information about caching in the HTTP spec could make it more complex then > neccessary. Thus, it would seem to me that it would be useful to put some > effort into building at least an "informational" RFC or IETF-Draft on the > subject of caching. Is someone already doing this? Would it make sense? If > it isn't being done and it does make sense, I think I'll volunteer to try to > fix this one... I certainly support this effort. I have yet to discover a source of comprehensive caching info and it would be much appreciated. -Mark P.S. I would have liked to have sent this message directly to Bob Wyman, but there was no indication on any of the mail headers of his address. The From, Reply-to and Sender fields all said www-talk-request@w3.org.
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