Re: New Issue: Incompatiblity between caching needs and persistant connections.
Andrew Daviel (andrew@andrew.triumf.ca)
Fri, 21 Mar 1997 11:04:43 -0800 (PST)
On Fri, 21 Mar 1997, Natchu Vishnu Priya wrote:
> Put simply persistant connections require me to place all my related
> documents, images, etc on a single comman server, while to facilitate
> caching it might be very useful to use a comman url for inlaid images.
I may be wrong, but I believe that e.g. Netscape opens 4 connections
by default. Can it (or any agent that opens multiple conections)
have persistant connections to multiple servers, and win/win ?
> For example an entire university might use images located on a master
> image server and use a single URL for refering to their emblem.
This seemed to me to be a good idea in general, but I'm not so sure
about linking images from places around the world (Blue Ribbon, etc.)
due to network problems giving partly-broken pages. See
http://vancouver-webpages.com/CacheNow/ for promotional material :-)
I think some of these problems may go away if/when URNs are deployed
instead of URLs (for multiply-sourced objects)
Andrew Daviel mailto:advax@triumf.ca
TRIUMF & Vancouver Webpages