[4927] in SIPB bug reports
Re: Bug in Mosaic
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (yandros@MIT.EDU)
Tue Oct 18 23:21:52 1994
From: yandros@MIT.EDU
Date: Tue, 18 Oct 1994 21:53:45 -0400
To: warlord@MIT.EDU
Cc: bug-sipb@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: <9410182016.AA28221@toxicwaste.media.mit.edu> (message from Derek Atkins on Tue, 18 Oct 1994 16:16:50 EDT)
While this seems like a reasonable optimization, it's important to
realize that a client or dedicated sub-client can never assume that
it's actually getting the `real' copy of the document. For simple
clients accessing files directly, this seems a bit odd until you think
about caches, proxies, url mapping, and the fact that web clients
don't really ever see a filename path; the URL's just look like UNIX
paths and sometimes subsume them.
That said, I'm certainly not going to object if someone wants to
change mosaic to do that - just make sure that you don't break
proxy/cahceing support.
chad
