- From: Larry Masinter <masinter@parc.xerox.com>
- Date: Mon, 8 May 1995 21:41:10 PDT
- To: Jared_Rhine@hmc.edu
- Cc: www-talk@www10.w3.org
Caching is a bad idea for something that changes length every time it's called. (Oh, quote-of-the-day, for example, or just the output from a request form.) Waiting to cache something that will never be needed again doesn't optimize anything, and adds unnecessary latency to the transaction while the server generates all of the data. I've noticed web sites that give the appearance of rapid response from search requests by returning immediately the header (complete with large inline usually-cached-by-the-client images) before actually completing the search results.
Received on Tuesday, 9 May 1995 00:41:35 UTC