incomplete upload to bzr.dev

James Henstridge james.henstridge at gmail.com
Tue Mar 21 16:59:36 GMT 2006


On 21/03/06, Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy at imag.fr> wrote:
> "James Henstridge" <james.henstridge at gmail.com> writes:
>
> > As far as request headers, "Cache-Control: max-stale=0" might make a
> > difference.  I don't know if there is a way for a client to instruct
> > the cache to revalidate.
>
> wget has a --no-cache option that does this. I used it once to get a
> newer version of a file that was incorrectly cached by the proxy and
> it worked. I don't know what it does internally.

It would be sending "Pragma: no-cache", which is a bit heavy handed.

There is nothing wrong with a web proxy caching bzr requests provided
that it revalidates with the original server to make sure it is
returning the right data (which could make quite a difference if
you're talking about a large inventory weave, for instance).

James.




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