Re: Why is Epiphany so chatty?

[Lee Revell <rlrevell joe-job com>]

On Wed, 2005-10-26 at 20:23 -0200, Matthew Thomas wrote:
> On 26 Oct, 2005, at 12:59 AM, Lee Revell wrote:
> > ...
> > It seems that if the site specifies a 5-minute refresh, as this one
> > does, Firefox and Epiphany will do what it says and reload 
> > *everything* every 5 minutes.
> >
> > Maybe this is the "correct" behavior.  But, IE is MUCH more aggressive
> > about caching images which is good from the user POV.
> > ...
> 
> You can use Live HTTP Headers <http://livehttpheaders.mozdev.org/> in 
> Firefox to check what kind of caching headers a Web site is sending for 
> each image.
> 

drudgereport.com has a 4 minute META refresh.

It's not really an issue of what the site is sending but whether we
blithely go along with it.  I would argue that if a Web site makes
stupid requests (like forcing the exact same Yahoo News image to be
reloaded from the server every 4 minutes) and we can use a heuristic to
be fairly certain that it's the same object, that we should load the
image from cache, against the site's wishes.  This seems to be what IE
does.

Lee