Re: Using HTTP cache control for invalidating a cache of parsed objects

Boris Zbarsky <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.mozilla.devel.netlib
Message-ID <[email protected]> 
On 11/7/11 4:00 PM, Brian Smith wrote:
> Why doesn't the server just serve the data exactly as we want it stored on disk?

Because the server is serving something like image data or javascript or 
CSS and we want to store something like image surfaces or Spidermonkey 
bytecode or parsed stylesheet o

> Is there some more detailed explanation of what exactly is being attempted?

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=288473
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=219276

and more recently:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=679942
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=665707

-Boris
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