Distribute copy of a document?
Maurizio Codogno (mau@beatles.cselt.stet.it)
Wed, 25 Jan 1995 10:51:07 --100
Hi all!
First, is there a mailing list/newsgroup devoted to http *questions*, as
opposed to protocol issues?
At the moment, I am trying to understand what does it mean to have
multiple language versions of a document, as hinted at in section 7.6
of the draft HTTP document.
The question (hopefully) directly related to this group is another, however.
In a distributed environment like WWW it is conceivable that a document is
present in many copies scattered throughout the world; for most of these
documents it is not mandatory that the copies are *always* verbatim the
same, but a slight delay in propagation can be allowed.
Would it be useful to add a Request Header Field to ask for possible
duplicates of the URL, and a corresponding Response Header? This way, the
client could implement some Internet metric and choose the "nearest"
document.
ciao, .mau.