Re: MOO Meeting 970305

From: Duane Wessels <wessels@dont-contact.us>
Date: Thu, 06 Mar 97 10:16:34 -0800

map@iphil.net writes:

>Hi,
>
>First of all thanks for posting the transcript - I can only imagine
>how the virtual meeting takes place! :)
>
>> The only thing that is a bit unclear is if objects are stale even if the
>> PUT request fails.
>
>It would seem that PUT requests should be stale at all times since there
>is no reason to cache outgoing data. Another reason that would back this up
>is my observation (is it true for everyone else?) that outgoing bandwidth
>is much, much more plentiful than incoming.

What Henrik (and the RFC) means is this:

      A GET http://foo.org/ occurs and is successful, so it gets
      cached. A PUT http://foo.org/ occurs and is not cachable. At
      the same time the previous 'GET http://foo.org/' must now be
      marked STALE.

Duane W.
Received on Tue Jul 29 2003 - 13:15:40 MDT

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