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Re: Automatic Page Updates
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Phillips)
Tue Jan 10 20:42:05 1995
Date: Wed, 11 Jan 1995 02:41:15 +0100
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From: Paul Phillips <psphilli@sdcc8.UCSD.EDU>
To: Multiple recipients of list <www-talk@www0.cern.ch>
On Tue, 10 Jan 1995, Mark J Cox wrote:
> Some clients are now starting to support the Expires header, but I know of
> none that will automatically refresh without user intervention. If they
> do then there is a need for a second header: one that tells the client
> that the document will expire at some given time - but don't bother
> getting it again.
Isn't it fun, trying to introduce advanced concepts of state to a
stateless protocol.
Is http going to keep mutating to provide the things people need, or is
state going to be obtained some other way?
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