[5268] in www-talk@info.cern.ch
Re: Caching Servers Considered Harmful (was: Re: Finger URL)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Nathan Torkington)
Mon Aug 22 22:21:51 1994
Date: Tue, 23 Aug 1994 04:06:54 +0200
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From: Nathan Torkington <Nathan.Torkington@vuw.ac.nz>
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James 'J' Allard writes:
> technically, you can't enforce something like this into the
> protocol, since it can be easily circumvented and undetected. i
> assert it will be if such a mechanism is offered.
The expiry mechanism can be relatively easily circumvented, but
nonetheless most of the time it isn't. If the cache *by default*
passes back statistics to servers, then most of the time it will be
left to behave in that way. You can't enforce *anything* with the
protocol :) but you if you make it possible, you take a step forward
from the current situation.
Cheers;
Nat
