RE: Hit-metering: to Proposed Standard?

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>From: 	Benjamin Franz[SMTP:snowhare@netimages.com]
>Sent: 	Wednesday, November 20, 1996 5:22 AM
>To: 	http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com
>Subject: 	Re: Hit-metering: to Proposed Standard? 
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>This also does not begin to address the questions of privacy and security
>and their impact on the usage of hit-metering.. Many corporate proxies
>would more than reluctant to be sending out information about their
>internal usages to anyone who asked - they would be actively opposed to
>it. 

If I ran a corporate cache, I'd want to use hit-metering to whatever
origin sites supported it. Today, those sites cost me one network round
trip for every GET done to fetch a "cache-busted" page from the sites,
and I give away (via Referer, etc.) information with each request.  With
hit-metering, origin sites that support it could cut the round trips by
any factor they chose, while still getting hit-count information; and
the corporation would be giving away less information about the
requests.  I.e., win-win.
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>In my view, the hit-metering proposal seems to request large amounts of
>work for proxies at nearly no benefit - to anyone.

Benefits to end users -- faster response time
Benefits to cache owners -- less network bandwidth needed
Benefit to origin sites -- customer gets page faster, is more pleased
with site

Paul