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RE: cacheable HTTP?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Henrik Frystyk Nielsen)
Wed Feb 11 11:39:28 1998

Date: Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:47:42 -0500
To: "bgreene@cisco.com" <bgreene@cisco.com>,
        "'sully@mail.usinternet.com'" <sully@mail.usinternet.com>,
        "nanog@merit.edu" <nanog@merit.edu>
From: Henrik Frystyk Nielsen <frystyk@w3.org>
In-Reply-To: <01BD35F4.ABAD5E00.bgreene@cisco.com>

At 03:28 2/10/98 +0800, Barry Raveendran Greene wrote:
>
>Go to:
>
>	http://www.nlanr.net/Cache
>
>This is the place to start for WWW caching. There is already a lot of WWW 
>caching experience on the Net. Most of it is hyper-linked on NLANR's page.

Also note that most of the caches currently are running HTTP/1.0 [1], which
has a very crude/simplistic caching model. The caching model in HTTP/1.1
[2] is very much improved - hopefully the effects will start to show up
over the next 6-12 months.

Henrik

[1] http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc1945/rfc1945
[2] http://www.w3.org/Protocols/HTTP/1.1/draft-ietf-http-v11-spec-rev-01.txt
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Henrik Frystyk Nielsen,
World Wide Web Consortium
http://www.w3.org/People/Frystyk

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