On Thu, 21 Oct 2010, Shane R. Spencer wrote:
> Heh. One thing I noticed about Microsoft updates while working on a project called
> MirrorPool was that they would use identical url names for different or updated packages.
> I have no idea why they would publish new information under the same hashed filename.
>
> Ugh.
>
> So in order to cache MS updates properly, you had to either get pushed new information or
> query the head of the remote file every time you served it anyways.
That is absolutely heinous. Almost makes you wonder if those buggers are
just trying keep network operators from caching.
--Arthur Corliss
Live Free or Die
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