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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 ([email protected])| 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
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