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4th January 2008 - Link Blog

HTTP Cache Channels (via) Interesting extension to the HTTP caching model by Mark Nottingham: caches can be told to subscribe to an Atom feed which alerts them to cached data that has gone stale. Group invalidation is also supported.

Posted 4th January 2008 at 12:48 pm

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