On 27 Jun 1998, Michael Shields wrote:
In article <35935600.FF54EBFE@infowest.com>, "Aaron D. Gifford" <agifford@infowest.com> wrote:
It might also be time for content providers of time-sensitive data on the web to redirect requests coming from Digex' proxy harvest machines to a web page that says something along the lines of "Digex has intercepted your web request and directed it through their web caching system. This impacts the time-sensitive data at this site. Hence you cannot access this site in this manner.
Any content provider savvy enough to put that up could just as easily put in the proper headers to tag their content as cacheable or uncacheable or cacheable until time X, and that would be better for *everyone* involved.
Except when listening to the "proper" headers has been turned off by the cache (which some of these caching products support or will support). bye, ken emery