Re: image caching and image deferment control

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Errors-To: sanders@bsdi.com
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Message-id: <9310220207.AA01087@austin.BSDI.COM>
To: www-talk@nxoc01.cern.ch
Subject: Re: image caching and image deferment control 
In-reply-to: ellson@hotsand.att.com's message of Thu, 21 Oct 93 21:18:55 EDT.
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Reply-To: sanders@bsdi.com
Organization: Berkeley Software Design, Inc.
Date: Thu, 21 Oct 1993 21:07:39 -0500
From: Tony Sanders <sanders@bsdi.com>

[ellson@hotsand.att.com writes about wanting images to refresh and the like]

Read up on ``URI:'' and ``Expires:'' in:
    http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/Protocols/HTTP/Object_Headers.html

There is all kinds of good stuff in there that no one implements :-(
See also:
    http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/MarkUp/Relationships.html

> "<img no_dil src=xxx.xbm>"
If the user doesn't want images then they don't want images.  Why should
the author be able to override the users preferences?

--sanders