December 2001
Intermediate to advanced
400 pages
12h 2m
English
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Chapter 5. HTTP Support for Caching and Replication
The previous chapters discussed Internet basics, including a basic introduction to HTTP. This chapter highlights the most important HTTP features relevant to caching and replication. While many of these features can be used for a wide variety of purposes, we will concentrate on their uses for caching and replication support.