Re: Improving If-Modified-Since

On Tue, 15 Aug 1995, Lou Montulli wrote:

> > If the user requests a "Reload" operation, they are asking for a
> > new copy of the resource from its origin.
> 
> We obviously have different opinions on what a "reload" should do.
> 
> My interpretation of "reload" is to check everything on the page
> and retransfer any objects that have changed.

There needs to be a way to recover from errors at every stage of the
path from the original data to the user's screen.  There could be
tranmission corruption, a proxies data storeage may have gotten
stepped on, etc.  If not "Reload", what?

> :lou
> -- 
> Lou Montulli                 http://www.mcom.com/people/montulli/
>        Netscape Communications Corp.

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