Re: Conditional GET Proposal for HTTP Caching

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From: luotonen@ptsun00.cern.ch (Ari Luotonen)
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Subject: Re: Conditional GET Proposal for HTTP Caching
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> I made a proposal in January about providing a conditional GET
> capability in HTTP.  It involves accepting a Last-modified header
> in an HTTP request and sending the document only if the Last-modified
> date of the document is more recent than the one in the request.
> 
> The full proposal is now available at 
> 
>       http://www.ics.uci.edu/WebSoft/caching.html
> 
> I was wondering whether any of the server authors are planning on
> including this feature in future versions?

CERN team thinks this is a neat idea, and is all for it.  It
doesn't break any existing servers, and makes it possible to
have much faster caching.

But let's not call it Last-Modified, let's call it Newer-Than
or somethig like that.  Once we are in agreement about the name
I'll put it into cern_httpd.

Cheers,
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Ari Luotonen		 |
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