Comment 6 for bug 100620

I am positively surprised that this thread is taken up again. The thread is from 2003 and actually we have been complaining a lot about the problems with caching in Silva again and again, also later in 2005 ( https://issues.ethz.ch/silva/0366 ). I have been trying to connect Martijn and Bengt at that time, but that ended in ideologicall fighting and brought no practical remedy. There IS a big problem with caching in Silva, meaning that it would be nice to get at least suitable headers and behavement towards a reverse caching proxy.

Now, astonishing is the link given as a new relevation: this was made known to Infrae years ago during the arguments e.g. in
https://issues.ethz.ch/silva/0366 from 2005.
(see the link there to http://www.web-caching.com/mnot_tutorial/how.html from where you actually get to http://www.mnot.net/cacheability/ and where you also find the link to http://www.ircache.net/cgi-bin/cacheability.py). We used that caching test machine among others already in 2005 to tell Infrae our findings. We have actually installed one here at ETH, too.

As then there was not really a reaction to our complaints, we thought, well, not helpful enough to do something. However it seems to me now, that things have not been really checked.

So let's hope, that the subject is now taken seriously at last. Looking forward to the results,

Greetings, Flint