HTTP Caching

from blog marijnhaverbeke.nl/blog, | ↗ original
(This is something I wrote for a now-defunct web publication in 2008. I've inlined the text here.) Giving caches a chance Though it tends to get treated as one, HTTP is not just a dumb file-transfer protocol. It allows you, to a certain degree, to specify an intention with your requests (GET/POST, with PUT and DELETE thrown in if you really want...