caching & revalidation, followup -- a question to proxy server

Daniel Hellerstein (danielh@mailbox.econ.ag.gov)
Tue, 05 May 1998 17:25:56 -0400


Yesterday I inquired about how an origin server may inform
downstream caches (say, on proxy servers) that a given
response may change suddenly -- implying that a cache
may store the content, but should always revalidate before using.