- From: Martin Hamilton <martin@mrrl.lut.ac.uk>
- Date: Sat, 17 Aug 1996 08:26:52 +0100
- To: HTTP Working Group <http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com>, ircache list <ircache@nlanr.net>
Andrew Daviel writes: | Supposing the above premises are reasonable, my question is whether | the output of more general search engines should be made cacheable? | It seems to me that certain queries are fairly popular, and that | some benefit might be had from cacheing the responses. On the other | hand, the number of possible URLs expands exponentially with the | length of the query string, so that cacheing every response would be | unreasonable, filling up caches with never-to-be-repeated requests. >From a quick scan through the logs, I don't see our proxies repeatedly servicing the same queries of the same search engines. Does anyone else ? Our users seem to be coming up with quite sophisticated queries, presumably because of the difficulty of actually finding anything on the Web... Martin
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