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


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