Jeffrey Mogul writes: > Drazen Kacar pointed out that I should probably have > excluded .shtml URLs from this category, as well, because > they are essentially the same thing as CGI output. I checked > and found that 354 of the references in the trace were to .shtml > URLs, and hence 10075, instead of 10429, of the references > should have been categorized as possibly cache-busted. (This > is a net change of less than 4%.) Unfortunately, use of server-side-include type schemes (what .shtml is typically meant to invoke) is not always so easy to detect --- the Apache web server, for instance, has hooks which allow the same sort of processing to be applied to *.html files with certain unusual Unix permission bit settings (XBitHack), and there are people who run the server configured to treat *all* *.html files as (potentially) containing server-side includes. Deliberate cache-busting (e.g., to enable collection of better metrics) may not be the intent of these setups, but they currently have something of that effect... rstReceived on Tuesday, 3 December 1996 07:56:17 UTC
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