On 21/01/2009 21:30, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote:
On Jan 21, 2009, at 11:07 AM, Adrian Chadd wrote:
Finding ways to force object revalidation by an intermediary cache (so
the end origin server knows something has been fetched) and thus
allowing the cache to serve the content on behalf of the content
origintor, under their full control, but without the bits being served.
Excellent idea. It is a shame content owners do not see the utility in
your idea.
This doesn't provide feed-back to the content distributors on partial
downloads, etc - which is useful information to content providers, if
you're into data mining end-user browsing habits. In the specific case of
Youtube, of course I don't know that they do this, but I'd be surprised if
they didn't.
Nick
