- From: Jack Cleaver <jack@jackpot.uk.net>
- Date: Wed, 28 May 2008 09:15:48 +0100
- To: WebDAV <w3c-dist-auth@w3.org>
Julian Reschke wrote: > > Helge Hess wrote: >> ... Probably this was discussed before? Was the conclusion that >> pipelining is a sufficient replacement? ... > > Any kind of a batched GET defeats caching. So far I haven't seen > evidence that doing it will work better than just issuing many GET > requests. Should caching really be such a big issue for protocol designers in this modern world? My ISP has just announced that it is abandoning its 20-year-old web-cache, on the grounds that: - In a broadband world, end-users don't perceive much benefit - In a world of SSL, web-apps and sessions, caches don't work anyway - You can't seriously expect to cache any useful propertion of multimedia content The impact of web-caches on global bandwidth usage is presumably marginal, nowadays; HTTP page requests must be a pretty small fraction of general bandwidth usage. [No stats to hand - ed.] -- Jack.
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