Re: estimated-visits-per-day (Was: Re: Caching dynamically generated documents)

> One way to implement this idea would be to introduce a
> cache-control header
> 
>   Cache-control: estimated-visits-per-day=N
> 
> with N being an estimate by the server of how often the resource is
> visited each day.  Even very rough estimates (say 0.01, 0.1, 1, 10,
> 100, or 1000) could help caches a lot.
> 
> Estimates could be made by content authors, or semi-automatically by

Authors will give bad estimates.
who would write a document knowing that its estimated-visits-per-day=0.01 ? 
On the other hand, my fundamental papers on "the life of ants on Mars" 
would certainly include a estimated-visits-per-day=1000.

	Luigi

Received on Saturday, 6 January 1996 00:48:12 UTC