Proxying

[Jason McBrayer]

colecmac at protonmail.com writes:

> I have to wonder whether anyone would actually use this. What do you
> all think of this workflow/feature? Is it potentially useful?

I do think a caching proxy would be potentially useful, especially as
few clients do caching themselves. I could also see it useful for
offline use (client spiders through local proxy while online, client reads
offline through local proxy).

The tricky bit is, of course, cache expiration. We don't provide as much
useful information to the cache as http does. You'll need to use
heuristics not only for how long to cache, but to provide a way to force
a refresh, which isn't covered in the spec.


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