#24 Server should re-send page (client has) if it has changed

[Bill Thies]

Opened by thies@mit.edu on 2002-06-07

It's obviously the case that if some pages show up
repeatedly in a user's search results (e.g.,
www.cnn.com) that the content will have changed
significantly over the content on the client's machine,
and we should resend the new content of the page to
replace (or, if we could, augment) the material the client
has already downloaded. My understanding is that
right now we never replace a page on the client (do we
even do it in the case of duplicate direct fetches?)

------- Additional Comments From tmahtab@mit.edu
06/09/02 09:03 -------

I believe that's correct. It would be fairly simple to
change things so that URL requests always download
the pages (in QueryEngine).