caching problems

Garrett Cooper yanefbsd at gmail.com
Mon Feb 25 14:42:03 UTC 2008


On Feb 25, 2008, at 4:28 AM, gareth wrote:

> On Fri 2008-02-22 (21:59), RW wrote:
>> Have you tried using curl to prefetch the relevant files, IIRC it  
>> adds
>> a header that asks for a refetch or revalidation. That may cause the
>> cache to update its copy, depending on whether their policy complies
>> with standards.
>
> i haven't tried that, not really sure what prefetching means?

prefetch => cache => get for later use, in this given case. Prefetch  
has similar connotations in hardware, but it's also somewhat different  
in definition.
-Garrett


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