RE: cacheable HTTP?

[Henrik Frystyk Nielsen <frystyk () w3 org>]

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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