Laughing Meme » ws http://laughingmeme.org Just another WordPress weblog Sun, 29 Jan 2012 21:54:39 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Tim on Etags: “What you want to do is compute the ETag based on the underlying data resources that actually drive the page creation; the input to that process, not its output.” http://laughingmeme.org/2007/08/01/tim-on-etags-what-you-want-to-do-is-compute-the-etag-based-on-the-underlying-data-resources-that-actually-drive-the-page-creation-the-input-to-that-process-not-its-output/ http://laughingmeme.org/2007/08/01/tim-on-etags-what-you-want-to-do-is-compute-the-etag-based-on-the-underlying-data-resources-that-actually-drive-the-page-creation-the-input-to-that-process-not-its-output/#comments Wed, 01 Aug 2007 15:41:12 +0000 Kellan http://laughingmeme.org/2007/08/01/tim-on-etags-what-you-want-to-do-is-compute-the-etag-based-on-the-underlying-data-resources-that-actually-drive-the-page-creation-the-input-to-that-process-not-its-output/ Was explaing this to folks yesterday who were worrying over bandwidth consumption of their API. Etags can help with that, but if you aren’t computation/database bound consider that perhaps you haven’t built a successful enough service.

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