Re: [alto] Caching ALTO

Thanks for bringing this up, as it slipped my mind. Maybe we could 
design a few optional test cases to catch this at the next interop?

Bye,
Robert

On 07/28/11 10:35, Thomson, Martin wrote:
> One of the concerns that I had from my brief look at the server implementations on offer the other night was the lack of support for caching mechanisms.
>
> Thinking about Robert's request for example scenarios, it seems sensible that EVERY alto flow starts with a request to the IRD.  That is, the application always retrieves it, but it is probably cached locally.
>
> Caching is going to be key to the scalable performance of this protocol.  Implementing that caching in clients is a reasonable starting point, but what I'm seeing right now is that clients are caching on their own.  There is no guidance being given by servers.
>
> Doing this means that you can't take advantage of the existing caching infrastructure of the web.
>
> It's really quite easy.  All you need to do is provide Cache-Control headers.
>
> --Martin
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