- From: Steve Davies <steve@iafrica.com>
- Date: Sat, 6 Jan 1996 09:41:42 +0200 (GMT+0200)
- To: Paul Leach <paulle@microsoft.com>
- Cc: dwm@shell.portal.com, mogul@pa.dec.com, http-caching@pa.dec.com
On Fri, 5 Jan 1996, Paul Leach wrote: > The reason I have been pursuing the topic of caching the results of > queries is that I keep hearing the claim that more and more web pages > are being dynamically generated as a result of queries -- pages which > formerly used to be the vanilla-flavored "file in the file system" > type. It seems to me that we need to try to raise the profile of caching in the awareness of web providers. A service generating most/all its pages dynamically has a resonsibility to include meta-data to help caches evaluate cacheability. Heuristics used by the cache can only ever be a stop-gap. Steve
Received on Saturday, 6 January 1996 07:52:56 UTC