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[jsr339-experts] Re: [jax-rs-spec users] Re: Re: Proposal to downgrade [JAX_RS_SPEC-39] Client Cache Support to MINOR

From: Santiago Pericas-Geertsen <Santiago.PericasGeertsen_at_oracle.com>
Date: Mon, 9 May 2011 09:10:01 -0400

On May 7, 2011, at 7:26 AM, Julian Reschke wrote:

> HTTP caches not only live in User Agents, but also in intermediaries. So it's definitively *possible* to write well-performing cache implementations (Squid comes to mind).
>
> That being said, caching is totally non-trivial; and having a broken cache implementation may be worse than not having a cache at all.

 Yes, exactly. Possible but non-trivial is an accurate statement. I'm also skeptical about a single caching configuration that would work well for all use cases out of the box.

-- Santiago