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Old 09-10-2013, 04:35 AM   #1849
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Originally Posted by Feynor View Post
If only these sites would make good use of the HEAD command, it could cut down on their load tremendously.
The standard response header does have a Last-Modified field, for instance:
Last-Modified: Tue, 10 Sep 2013 07:43:03 GMT

However on FFNET and TTH, this seems to always be today's date, rendering it useless.

Are there any way to "suggest" that they start using the response header to provide simple metadata?

Why would that help them?
By using the HEAD command, the server "only" have to look up a few things about the given story id, it doesn't have to load all the data for the page, and render the HTML code or send the data, taxing their bandwidth.

Why would that help us?
Speed, and easier decoding. Pure and simple.
TTH might listen, no idea about FFN. Then again since they're currently trying to upgrade their network, this might be of use to their current interests. They've got a Twitter you can suggest this to.
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