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On Tue, Jan 16, 2001 at 12:13:26PM -0500, Mark Baker wrote: > Miles Sabin wrote: > > The problem I want a solution to is, > > > > I have a public ID/system ID/URI for this DTD, external entity, > > schema, RDDL doc, etc.; find me a server which can give me an > > authoritative copy (in the case of a URI maybe a mirror of the > > main server). > > > > or maybe rather than finding a server I just want the > > authoritative copy itself. > > Or a cached copy? > > > So I guess it's more the former than the latter that I'm > > interested in, and yes, from my reading of the existing RESCAP > > docs it doesn't appear to address that problem. > > Why bother with RESCAP when HTTP was designed to do this? For the > disconnected example, set up a HTTP proxy cache on your laptop, > configure your browser to use it, browse to resource so it may be > cached, and there you go. Other user agents on the laptop can be > configured to use the proxy too (e.g. JDK). RESCAP is a bit faster and more lightweight than HTTP. By the time HTTP has done the 3 way handshake for the TCP session RESCAP has already gotten the answer.... > Don't be too concerned about "hot spots". Who knows, maybe whomever > maintains that document uses Akamai. Ain't abstraction wonderful? I think that's part of the problem. The abstractions are hiding some of the metadata you need in order to determine what or where the appropriate copy of something may be.... -MM -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Michael Mealling | Vote Libertarian! | www.rwhois.net/michael Sr. Research Engineer | www.ga.lp.org/gwinnett | ICQ#: 14198821 Network Solutions | www.lp.org | michaelm@n...
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