Roy T. Fielding wrote:
For the record, Graham's statements were entirely correct, Brian's suggested architecture would slow the HTTP cache,
No. It would simplify the existing implementation. The existing implementation, as Graham has noted, is not "fully functional." Graham argues - and I'm still mulling it over - that a generic cache architecture would get in the way of making a fully functional http cache.
-- Brian Akins Lead Systems Engineer CNN Internet Technologies
