Re: The ability to automatically upgrade a reference to HTTPS from HTTP

On 8/22/2014 11:02 PM, Eric Prud'hommeaux wrote:
> If search engines answered the question "are the contents of http:foo and
> https:foo different", we could evaluate the impact of having one fill the
> cache for the other.

Yes. At the endpoints where content is in the clear the aliasing can in 
principle be handled. I was more concerned with intermediary proxy caches 
that (typically) should not have keys to access content in the clear. I 
know for a fact that some large corporations were still running such 
proxies at their network borders as of a few years ago. Unless I'm missing 
something, those caches become worse than useless for https content. That 
is, they add overhead because connections sometimes go through them, but 
they add no value as caches because they don't (and shouldn't) see content 
in the clear.

Noah

Received on Saturday, 23 August 2014 16:48:17 UTC