[5300] in www-talk@info.cern.ch
Re: Caching Servers Considered Harmful (was: Re: Finger URL)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Nathan Torkington)
Tue Aug 23 19:16:55 1994
Date: Wed, 24 Aug 1994 01:14:34 +0200
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From: Nathan Torkington <Nathan.Torkington@vuw.ac.nz>
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Brian Behlendorf writes:
> *Many* times I've gone looking for specs related to HTTP/HTML
> issues, scouring CERN, NCSA, using any and all robots, only to come
> up short
Testify, Brother Brian. I'm writing a chapter on HTTP for a book on
the web, and I've had to resort to scruffling through code and
pretending to be clients and servers in order to find out what
*really* happens.
Case in point: the fact that redirection is done through the Location:
header line, not the URI: header line. The `documentation' is little
more than a wishlist.
Nat
