Re: Content-lengths of dynamic objects

Rainer Klute ([email protected])
Tue, 9 May 1995 02:59:55 +0500

>Caching is a bad idea for something that changes length every time
>it's called. (Oh, quote-of-the-day, for example, or just the output
>from a request form.)

That's what the Expires header is good for, isn't it? See
<http://www.nads.de/NADS/Ueberblick/heute> for an example. This URL
gives you an overview of events in D�sseldorf and about for the
very day. It expires at the end of the day (local time in Germany).

(In fact, it is just a 302 Redirect message pointing to the real
document. To make the CERN httpd cache redirections, see my patch
under
<http://www.nads.de/NADS/Public/WWWTechnik/WWWDaemon-patch.01.gz>.)

Best regards
Rainer Klute

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