I-D ACTION:draft-ietf-http-hit-metering-04.txt

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	Title		: Simple Hit-Metering and Usage-Limiting for HTTP
	Author(s)	: J. Mogul, P. Leach
	Filename	: draft-ietf-http-hit-metering-04.txt
	Pages		: 35
	Date		: 15-Oct-97
	
        This document proposes a simple extension to HTTP, using a
        new ``Meter'' header, which permits 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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