- From: Roy T. Fielding <fielding@kiwi.ICS.UCI.EDU>
- Date: Thu, 20 Mar 1997 11:34:44 -0800
- To: Koen Holtman <koen@win.tue.nl>
- Cc: http-wg@cuckoo.hpl.hp.com
In message <199703190831.JAA04987@wsooti08>, Koen Holtman writes: >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. Actually, that was someone connected with the UK educational/research caches, but the result is the same. ....Roy
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