- From: Gerald Oskoboiny <gerald@w3.org>
- Date: Mon, 4 Nov 2002 23:09:15 -0500
- To: Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net>
- Cc: www-talk@w3.org
On Sat, Nov 02, 2002 at 10:25:18PM -0800, Mark Nottingham wrote: > [ Gerald Oskoboiny: ] > > It might just be a matter of educating people what is already possible. > > I was thinking of something that would allow lower-cost implementations; > right now, if a tool wants to take advantage of such information, it needs > to implement a complete, HTTP-compliant cache. An immutable flag would > lower the bar considerably; it says "yes, just store a local copy and use > it from now on." Yes, that's true. I would hope that popular languages like Perl and Python would have libraries to do this kind of thing, but I haven't really checked. Then all we'd need to do is convince people to use libraries instead of writing from scratch. > > The other day the RSS world discovered ETags and it seems to have > > spread around various implementations quite quickly, after some > > people wrote it up clearly and others became motivated enough by > > the bandwidth savings to spend time implementing it. > > Saw that; very encouraging. It seems like expiry times could be handled in a similar way: not necessarily full HTTP/1.1 implementations, just the bare minimum needed to track and honor expiry info. -- Gerald Oskoboiny http://www.w3.org/People/Gerald/ World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) http://www.w3.org/ tel:+1-613-261-6630 mailto:gerald@w3.org
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