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Re: Some data related to the frequency of cache-busting

From: Drazen Kacar <Drazen.Kacar@public.srce.hr>
Date: Thu, 28 Nov 1996 02:47:02 +0100 (MET)
Message-Id: <199611280147.CAA28144@jagor.srce.hr>
To: Jeffrey Mogul <mogul@pa.dec.com>
Cc: http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com
X-Mailing-List: <http-wg@cuckoo.hpl.hp.com> archive/latest/1978
Jeffrey Mogul wrote:

> things like GIF and JPEG.  URLs with the following filename
> extensions were not collected:
>     "jpeg", "jpg", "gif", "exe", "z", "gz", "mpeg", "mpg", "au", "snd",
>     "aif", "aiff", "aifc", "wav", "ief", "tiff", "xwd", "mpe", "qt",
>     "mov", "avi", "movie", "gl", "dl", "fli", "flc"

So you collected "shtml" which is very likely to go out without
last-modified header.

OTOH, those that you did not collect are very likely to be larger than
HTML files and more stable. Except in case of "advanced usage" of ad banners.

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Received on Wednesday, 27 November 1996 17:56:18 UTC

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