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Re: lynx-dev Why doesn't lynx cache HTML source?


From: mattack
Subject: Re: lynx-dev Why doesn't lynx cache HTML source?
Date: Sat, 14 Nov 1998 16:55:15 -0800 (PST)

On Fri, 13 Nov 1998, David Woolley wrote:

>Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1998 08:19:38 +0000 (GMT)
>From: David Woolley <address@hidden>
>Reply-To: address@hidden
>To: address@hidden
>Subject: Re: lynx-dev Why doesn't lynx cache HTML source?
>
>> 
>> Use cache - always validate cached data (see Note3):
>
>A large proportion of web pages these days are uncacheable, often for
>misguided commercial reasons.  I strongly suspect that a disproportionate
>number of the ones that people will need to view source on or parse in
>different ways will fall in this category.
>
>Pages are becoming uncacheable either because they are dynamically
>generated or because uncacheability is forced in order to give the

Why does dynamic generation make a page uncacheable?

Obviously Lynx is getting HTML data, so it could just save that same un-
rendered HTML data, so it can show as source or regularly.

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