- From: Jeffrey Mogul <mogul@pa.dec.com>
- Date: Fri, 01 Nov 96 11:13:13 PST
- To: http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com
For some reason, this appeared Tuesday on the main IETF list, but not on
the HTTP-WG list:
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A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts
directories.
Title : Simple Hit-Metering for HTTP Preliminary Draft
Author(s) : J. Mogul, P. Leach
Filename : draft-mogul-http-hit-metering-00.txt
Pages : 26
Date : 10/28/1996
This draft proposes a simple extension to HTTP, using a new ``Meter''
header, to permit demographic information to be reported by caches to
origin servers, and to permit an origin server to control the number of
times a cache uses a cached response. It also outlines techniques that
origin servers can use to capture referral information without
"cache-busting."
[...]
ftp://ds.internic.net/internet-drafts/draft-mogul-http-hit-metering-00.txt
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Note that this is NOT the same proposal that Paul and I circulated
at the end of July. Although the latest proposal has the same goals
and shares some of the same design concepts, we've made several
significant design changes that (we believe) results in a much simpler,
more elegant design with far fewer loose ends. Please ignore our
previous (July 31) draft!
-Jeff
Received on Friday, 1 November 1996 11:41:47 UTC