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What's in an RFC? Deciphering and interpreting an RFC is never an easy thing and many times the same RFC can be interpreted different ways.  My favourite RFC is RFC 2616 - Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.1 specifically section 13 on caching and section 14 on headers make for a very interesting read.  I frequently encounter situations where browsers and applications don't appear to behave as the RFC states they should.  Here are a couple of examples I have come across:   Firefox 3 Expires and Max-Age According to section 14.9.3 "If a response includes both an Expires header and a... posted @ Tuesday, March 17, 2009 5:45 AM | Feedback (3)

Acceleration ABCs - Z is for Zebra There's an old medical adage that goes something like "When you hear hoof beats look for horses, not zebras."  Zebras are rare and exotic, while horses are much more common. It is often times best to think of common solutions first like a horse than to look for an exotic solution like a zebra.  This same adage applies to acceleration, start with the simple things first before attempting the more advanced options.   By starting with the common items you can start to see immediate benefits, the more exotic options require more time and resources as these often require more in-depth... posted @ Monday, December 22, 2008 6:06 AM | Feedback (0)

Acceleration ABCs - M is for Mozilla Thanks to my colleague Sam for helping me come up with an M word.  I was going to talk about multiplexing but Lori beat me to it.  So instead of multiplexing m is for Mozilla.  Probably one of the most popular Mozilla projects is the Firefox browser.  Firefox is the second most used browser according to recent statistics posted by NetApplications.  I read an interesting post from the folks over at HttpWatch discussing the differences in the way IE and Firefox handle caching directives.  The difference in the way browsers handle cache directives means that more consideration needs... posted @ Thursday, November 06, 2008 6:12 AM | Feedback (0)