On Mon, Jun 18, 2007, squid3@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > Should be possible on (but tricky, and maybe slow) to use a hash/MD5 or > similar on the file binary instead of the URI. Good backup programs do it > so accel configs should be easy. > Problem (maybe the blocker) would be getting it out of the webserver, or > long-term linking and caching of such maps. Someone brought it up on the IETF HTTP working group list a few weeks ago, but noone could come up with any particularly good reason for it. This'd be a good reason, but establishing actual URI forms for distributed content would be much better. The trouble is implementing MD5's of each object, and all the varying forms; especially on dynamically generated content which is "actually" static. All an MD5 hash of an object here is, when you think about it, is an informal URI anyway.. Adrian
