Re: What would break, a question for implementors? (was Re: Is 303 really necessary?)

On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 12:12 PM, Nathan <nathan@webr3.org> wrote:
> However, if you use 303's the then first GET redirects there, then you store
> the ontology against the redirected-to URI, you still have to do 40+ GETs
> but each one is fast with no response-body (ontology sent down the wire)
> then the next request for the 303'd to URI comes right out of the cache.
> It's still 40+ requests unless you code around it in some way, but it's
> better than 40+ requests and 40+ copies of the single ontology.

But in practice, don't you look in your cache first? If you already
have a label for foaf:knows because you looked up foaf:mbox a few
seconds ago why would you issue another request?

Ian

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