Re: platform http ibrary

[Maciej Stachowiak <mjs noisehavoc org>]

On 21Nov2001 04:46PM (-0500), Daniel Veillard wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 21, 2001 at 01:19:40PM -0800, Maciej Stachowiak wrote:
> > I think our general plan for the platform is to use gnome-vfs as the
> > network library, and use stopgap solutions for the current missing
> > features (mostly POST).
> 
>   My main irritation as a web site maintainer about using gnome-vfs
> for general web browsing is that it should cache the fact that a given
> server doesn't provide PROPFIND capabilities. This would effectively
> divide by 2 the number of request made (I detected this while looking
> at rpmfind web server logs and finding PROPFIND/GET/PROPFIND/GET sequences 
> from gnome-vfs clients :-).

OK, I'd love to help come up with a solution to this problem. For how
long do you think it's valid to cache lack of PROPFIND? Is PROPFIND
always either supported for a whole slite or not at all (so that the
caching could be done on a per-host basis)?

Regards,

Maciej