Re: platform http ibrary

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Wed, Nov 21, 2001 at 01:48:43PM -0800, Maciej Stachowiak wrote:
> On 21Nov2001 04:46PM (-0500), Daniel Veillard wrote:
> >   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)?

  I think Greg Stein is the right person to ask about this (or rather 
the person the more likely to give the right answer :-)

Daniel

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