Re: Multi-GET, extreme compression?

Hi Phillip,

--On February 16, 2013 1:01:59 PM -0500 Phillip Hallam-Baker 
<hallam@gmail.com> wrote:

> And the typical communication pattern of a browser would be:
>
>
> GET /toplevel.html
> MGET </image1.jpg /image2.jpg ...>
>
>
>
> Given this particular communication pattern which has an implicit delta
> encoding, do we really need to worry about a separate delta encoding?
>

We added a multiget REPORT to CalDAV (RFC4791) and CardDAV (RFC6352) which 
is used by clients when sync'ing a lot of resources (e.g., initial account 
setup). The one major criticism has been lack of cacheability of the 
individual resources included in the multiget.

So in your example, if one client did MGET (image1, image2) and another did 
GET (image1) then ideally the second could be returned by the cache. So 
would we expect caches to be able to "split-up" the resources in an MGET so 
it could serve them up individually for a GET, or in some other combination 
for a different MGET?

-- 
Cyrus Daboo

Received on Sunday, 17 February 2013 19:18:54 UTC