- From: N.G.Smith <ngs@sesame.hensa.ac.uk>
- Date: Mon, 18 Sep 1995 11:01:01 +0000
- To: huw@dcs.gla.ac.uk
- Cc: www-proxy@w3.org
>At the moment it is not possible for clients to be sure that the >cached page they are looking at has been updated since the copy >was cached. This e-mail proposes a protocol for cache-coherency >of Web pages. The Conditional GET method using If-Modified-Since solves this problem and is already in widespread use. Check out: http://www.w3.org/hypertext/WWW/Protocols/HTTP1.0/draft-ietf-http-spec.html#If-Modified-Since >I have cc'd this to www-lib as I'm not sure if www-proxy is still >a valid list. > >Huw Evans Apparently www-proxy is still a valid list, it is just that the volume of traffic is very low. Neil Smith HENSA Unix
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