Re: Network Abuse by Netscape? -- Was: Mosaic replacements, etc...

Steinar Bang (steinarb@falch.no)
Mon, 24 Oct 94 09:12:17 +0100


>>>>> In article <Pine.BSI.3.91.941022113939.23045B-100000@get.wired.com>, Brian Behlendorf <brian@wired.com> writes:

>> What Netscape has done, in a sense, is to abrogate its responsibilities
>> for efficient behavior at the expense of the network at large and those
>> who choose to operate http servers.

> Well actually, one thing I think they've done is demonstrate a fundamental
> weakness in the HTTP/inline image model. One solution that is in line
> with the talk here and on the HTTP working group list is that servers
> could combine their documents and inline images into a MIME document,
> multiplexing the elements into fixed-size chunks of something small like
> 2Kbytes apiece or something.

The problem with this solution is that I don't see any way to allow
for client side image caching.

- Steinar

-- 


Support your local DoD chapter.