- From: Rob Hartill <hartill@ooo.lanl.gov>
- Date: Tue, 15 Aug 95 15:49:49 MDT
- To: montulli@mozilla.com
- Cc: hartill@lanl.gov, fielding@beach.w3.org, http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com
> "fix" is an interresting choice of words. "change" is more appropriate. > Not sending an "if-modified-since" header with reloads would be extremely > costly in terms of bandwidth. Adding cache checksums is a much better > solution. no no no no no. Let the user *choose* to override the sending of "if-modified-since". Which is the bigger bandwidth waste ... discarding 5Mb of disk cache or not sending if i-m-s for a request the user has realised is cached incorrectly ? We're not alking about having it as a default action, just an option for users to refresh bad cache entries. Presumably the people sending you "bug" reports are doing so because they see junk in their caches and can't get rid of it. Your users will still have the same problem with URLs which don't have checksums, and that's going to be the norm for a long time to come. rob -- http://nqcd.lanl.gov/~hartill/
Received on Tuesday, 15 August 1995 14:53:37 UTC