[5236] in www-talk@info.cern.ch
Re: Caching Servers Considered Harmful (was: Re: Finger URL)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Darren New)
Mon Aug 22 13:54:15 1994
Date: Mon, 22 Aug 1994 19:52:46 +0200
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From: Darren New <dnew@sgf.fv.com>
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> the number is substantially less than 4000. (From the
> paper, the HENSA server will expire GNN non-GIF files
> after two days, and GIF files after two weeks. Here's
> a real-life ramification of caching: for those using
> the HENSA server, our daily Dilbert comic strip is
> available only once every two weeks.)
Well, it certainly sounds like the protocol needs a time-to-live, now
doesn't it? Or at least a digest of the file to be compared against short
fetches every few hours. -- Darren
