ratzka@rsrz01.hrz.uni-marburg.de writes:
>Even "big" sites with high load fail to provide at least
>"Last-Modified" headers, which are crucial for caching. This is
>e.g. true for many of Netscape's own pages. So it seems they're not
>afraid of burning bandwidth...
I think they do this to get as many hits to their pages as possible.
They need those hits for their commercial purposes, many hits --> high
prices for commercial announcements.
Wolfgang Klimt
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Received on Thu Jul 25 1996 - 00:45:30 MDT
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