- From: Jeffrey Mogul <Jeff.Mogul@hp.com>
- Date: Mon, 05 May 2003 17:21:49 -0700
- To: Tim Tailor <tim.tailor@gmx.net>
- Cc: ietf-http-wg@w3.org
Tim Tailor writes:
I just had an idea how traffic on the web could be dramatically
reduced. May be that it is already implemented in some way and I
just do not know about it.
Now the idea: Integrate a request command to http which will be
replied by the hash of the page only. Based on this information the
webbrowser or proxy could decide whether it needs to download the
whole page or not. Moreover a html tag could indicate pseudo-new
information like timestamps and make this hash even more
effective.
See this paper:
Terence Kelly and Jeffrey Mogul.
"Aliasing on the World Wide Web:
Prevalence and Performance Implications."
In Proc. 11th Intl. World Wide Web Conf., pages 281-292.
Honolulu, HI, May, 2002.
http://www2002.org/CDROM/refereed/525.pdf
especially section 7.
We've been working on a more complete paper about this idea, but
it's been a spare-time activity and neither of us has had enough
spare time.
Scott Lawrence writes:
RFC 2616, section 14.19
Nope, this doesn't solve the aliasing problem. And if you
reply "RFC 2616, section 14.15" then I would rebut with
"RFC 3230".
-Jeff
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