- From: Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net>
- Date: Fri, 8 Nov 2002 21:39:34 -0800
- To: "Gerald Oskoboiny" <gerald@w3.org>
- Cc: <www-talk@w3.org>
> 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. As far as I'm aware they don't, but there is growing awareness of the benefits of supporting more HTTP mechanisms like persistent connections, pipelining, content encoding for compression (not so much transfer encoding), ETag validation, etc., so maybe it'll spread to caching as well eventually. I'd also like to see delta encoding, but I imagine it'll be a while before we see it in Perl ;) That would be very cool for apps like RSS, because it would allow you to maintain a complete history of the feed on the server without knocking items off of the end of the queue. Of course, it gets ugly when the file is large and a new client comes along, or an old one needs to resync, but it's fun to think about. -- Mark Nottingham
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