Re: General use of rewrite / redirect
| From: | Per Jessen | Date: | Wed, 19 Mar 2008 09:54:31 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: General use of rewrite / redirect | ||
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Larry Garfield wrote:
> True, but bear in mind that the browser has to make a HEAD request for
> every such file in order to determine if it needs to download it
> again. That's a non-small amount of HTTP traffic if you have a lot of
> images or CSS files.
True - although I rarely see HEAD requests. I see lots of conditional
GETs instead.
BTW, why does the browser do this for objects it has already cached?
(assuming they're fresh/not expired)
/Per Jessen, Zürich