Re: caching dilemma

Rainer Klute (klute@nads.de)
Wed, 31 May 1995 03:17:47 +0500


James Gwertzman <gwertzma@eecs.harvard.edu>:
>I think we need a return code that is somewhere in between these two
>codes. Let me reiterate my application and you can see what I mean. I
>envision a system where pages are replicated across many
>servers. Clients should be redirected to the nearest server containing
>a replica of the pages that client is interested in.

Isn't that what URNs address? You can (will be able to) do caching
based on URNs rather than URLs.

Best regards
Rainer Klute

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