Re: Think before you write Semantic Web crawlers

Hi Christopher,

On 06/22/2011 10:14 AM, Christopher Gutteridge wrote:
> Right now queries to data.southampton.ac.uk (eg.
> http://data.southampton.ac.uk/products-and-services/CupCake.rdf ) are made live,
> but this is not efficient. My colleague, Dave Challis, has prepared a SPARQL
> endpoint which caches results which we can turn on if the load gets too high,
> which should at least mitigate the problem. Very few datasets change in a 24
> hours period.

setting the Expires header and enabling mod_cache in Apache httpd (or adding
a Squid proxy in front of the HTTP server) works quite well in these cases.

Best regards,
Andreas.

Received on Wednesday, 22 June 2011 09:45:29 UTC