- From: Anselm Baird-Smith <abaird@w3.org>
- Date: Wed, 4 Sep 1996 18:58:12 +0500
- To: "Roy T. Fielding" <fielding@liege.ICS.UCI.EDU>
- Cc: http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com
Roy T. Fielding writes: > > I can speak for myself here: as I am not as wise as you guys, and as I > > don't have much time for discussions, I did implement *exactly* (as > > faithfully as possible - see code below), Jeff's pseudo code. > > Anselm, I believe that what you have implemented is just the calculation > of the Age upon receipt, right? The question is: does the proxy code > add an Age header field (or to the value of an existing Age header) > when it forwards a message not from its own cache? > > There is nothing wrong with the calculation of Age upon receipt. The > problem would be if intermediaries added to the Age value (the age as > perceived by the outbound clients) when no aging occurs. If they do add > to the age, then Age becomes meaningless as a mechanism for ensuring a > lower bound in the presence of clock skew. Oops, sorry for the confusion, you are right. I am getting tired these days... Anselm.
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