- From: Dave Kristol <dmk@allegra.att.com>
- Date: Fri, 25 Aug 95 10:08:51 EDT
- To: bobwyman@medio.com
- Cc: http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com
Bob Wyman <bobwyman@medio.com> wrote: > [...] > 2. If you remove the requirement for forwarding of State-Info, you break > the ability of servers to use State-Info for click tracking. This is, > unfortunately, one of the applications that State-Info is supposed to > support. If it wasn't for click tracking, I would whole-heartedly support > your suggestion. Clicktrails were a fallout from the original State-Info proposal, but they weren't the main focus, and I would be willing to sacrifice them. I would support a separate mechanism. Note that clicktrails raise the same objection that State-Info forwarding raised: each request to a caching proxy would require a connection from the proxy to the server, even if the proxy could satisfy the request. That's one reason people objected to the State-Info forwarding. Other people have been discussing (on www-talk?) ways for origin servers to request statistics from proxies regarding (cache) hits for their server. That may be a more fruitful approach to gathering the statistics. Dave Kristol
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