On Sat, Jun 27, 1998 at 05:49:34AM -0400, Rich Sena wrote:
On Sat, 27 Jun 1998, Karl Denninger wrote:
Not to mention those to derive advertising revenue from "views", and have no way to measure them in a cached environment. If I was doing that, I would also deny service to proxy servers and display a nice message telling the user to remove the proxy or bitch about its forced use.
Karl that is silly - in the a lot less time and effort that you would put in setting up your redirect - you could have just used a correct Expires header and has your content (or at least just the suff that you want to remain dynamic) avoid the cache. It serves you as the designer as much as it serves the enduser (speedier loads). If your page comes up quickly chances are the person will venture around a bit londer and click more links in the 20 minutes that they have before their date picks them up etc... It's common sense.
As soon as that happens widely the cache is useless (or worse) and therefore people who use them have a reason to ignore the Expires headers. -- -- Karl Denninger (karl@MCS.Net)| MCSNet - Serving Chicagoland and Wisconsin http://www.mcs.net/ | T1's from $600 monthly / All Lines K56Flex/DOV | NEW! Corporate ISDN Prices dropped by up to 50%! Voice: [+1 312 803-MCS1 x219]| EXCLUSIVE NEW FEATURE ON ALL PERSONAL ACCOUNTS Fax: [+1 312 803-4929] | *SPAMBLOCK* Technology now included at no cost