I-D ACTION:draft-http-hit-metering-00.txt

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       Title     : Simple Hit-Metering for HTTP Preliminary Draft          
       Author(s) : J. Mogul, P. Leach
       Filename  : draft-http-hit-metering-00.txt
       Pages     : 33
       Date      : 10/28/1996

This draft proposes a simple extension to HTTP, using a new ``Meter'' 
header, to permit a limited form of demographic information (colloquially 
called ``hit-counts'') to be reported by caches to origin servers, in a 
more efficient manner than the ``cache-busting'' techniques currently used.
It also permits an origin server to control the number of times a cache 
uses a cached response, and outlines a technique that origin servers can 
use to capture referral information without ``cache-busting.''             

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