- From: Donald Neal <d.neal@waikato.ac.nz>
- Date: Thu, 20 Mar 1997 08:56:18 +1200
- To: http-wg@cuckoo.hpl.hp.com
At 09:30 AM 19/03/97 +0100, Koen Holtman wrote: [...] >What I remember (though my memory may be faulty) about New Zealand >educational caches is this: at the http BOF at www5, when we were discussing >the HTTP/1.1 caching design, someone connected to the New Zealand caches >wanted it to be possible for a compliant HTTP/1.1 cache to ignore all >attempts at a `reload' if the user was accessing some sites with a `low >educational value'. The cache would just keep returning the old cached >object (with a warning) instead of revalidating with the origin server. > >I somehow assumed that this meant you would also ignore very short expires >times from from these sites. Or are very short expires times from sites >with a `low educational value' not yet a problem? The question to which my posting was addressed referred to current practice. I don't know of anyone now doing this, and the software I'm working with now does not allow Expires headers to be ignored. Yes, I would still wish to have the option of setting a cache to limit the bandwidth expended on sites unconnected with the purposes of the organisation operating the cache. - Donald Neal
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