- From: <hallam@w3.org>
- Date: Tue, 27 Feb 96 15:12:15 -0500
- To: Balint Nagy Endre <bne@bne.ind.eunet.hu>
- Cc: http-caching@pa.dec.com, hallam@w3.org, hallam@w3.org
Could you expand upon the problem of dial up users on the end of a phone line? I did have a number of thoughts about this case, in particular about clients doing aggressive pre-fetch. If I go to the index of the new york times it should start pusshing the front pages down the line at me so thsat the minute I finish one page I can read the next. this means that there should be a mechanism for distinguishing real hits from false positives. I thought I would try a simple proposal as a start then see which extra features people thought essential. Perhaps we should regard a proxy cache as being logically a part of the client in the dialup case. Maybe we should work on a protocol which allows fast co exchange of data with a proxy on the other side of the line. This would be the "permanent" representative of the proxy. This server would also be responsible for handling notification operations as well. This is starting to sound like an interesting project, is it really linked to the log exchange problem or is it something separate however? Phill
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