- From: Koen Holtman <koen@win.tue.nl>
- Date: Sun, 7 Jan 1996 12:37:01 +0100 (MET)
- To: luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it (Luigi Rizzo)
- Cc: http-caching@pa.dec.com
Luigi Rizzo: >[Koen Holtman:] >> 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 ? Not everything available on web servers is written specifically for the web. I thinking of was cases in which an existing 100K entry database is put on the web as 100K web pages. A nice database publisher would surely have no problems putting estimated-visits-per-day=0.01 on each page. Typical examples of such databases: library catalogs, newsgroup archives, mailing list archives. >On the other hand, my fundamental papers on "the life of ants on Mars" >would certainly include a estimated-visits-per-day=1000. > > Luigi Koen.
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