- From: Peter J Churchyard <pjc@trusted.com>
- Date: Wed, 7 Feb 1996 10:03:46 -0500 (EST)
- To: fielding@avron.ICS.UCI.EDU (Roy T. Fielding)
- Cc: http-caching@pa.dec.com
> Now, let's assume that there does exist a different protocol called MEGA.
> In that case, we have
>
> HTTP MEGA HTTP
> UA ----> Org Proxy ----> Regional Proxy ----> OS
>
> Given this configuration, what are the requirements on HTTP?
That is not what I was talking about when discussing using another
protocol.
Requests passing through the chain may trigger events that take place outside
http.
HTTP HTTP HTTP
UA ----> Org Proxy ----> Regional Proxy ----> OS
| | |
| | |
Org Cache MEGA Regional Cache MEGA OS
In this way the protocol used to do entity replication from OS's to
caches can be designed to be efficient. Some pages could be distributed
say over the MBONE etc etc.
> The answer is: the same as they would be if MEGA=HTTP, since HTTP must
I agree in your senario.
Pete.
Received on Wednesday, 7 February 1996 15:44:16 UTC