- From: Larry Masinter <masinter@parc.xerox.com>
- Date: Tue, 12 Mar 1996 08:00:05 PST
- To: http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com
>>So supposing that the server constructed an opaque validator >>for a hit-count GIF that is simply an encoding of the hit-counter >>mod 10 (or mod 100, or mod 128, or whatever). Then a large >>fraction of the GET+If-Valid: requests on this GIF would return >>304 Not Modified, even though the count might have increased >>slightly. First, it's 'div' not 'mod'. :) > The correct thing to do in this case is to make the comparison function used > for servicing the GET+If-Valid requests a mod 10 comparison, not to make the > validator the mod 10 of the version number. this makes a lot of sense.
Received on Tuesday, 12 March 1996 08:03:11 UTC