Re: Caching of web content based on hashes?

This was discussed during the development of SRI.  It was not added because
it would provide the ability for a calling site to "speak for" another
origin, in the sense that the browser would load the content even the
origin server would have sent something completely different.

--Richard

On Wed, Sep 2, 2015 at 5:33 PM, Christian Nygaard <
christiannygaard@gmail.com> wrote:

> Is it possible to extend the Subresource integrity specification to allow
> for caching of web content based on hashes instead of max-age? This would
> allow for longer caching of objects and may speed up the web due to making
> cache control easier for web developers and proxies.
>
> http://w3c.github.io/webappsec/specs/subresourceintegrity/
>
> Best regards,
> Christian Nygaard
>