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Changes between Initial Version and Version 1 of Ticket #9936, comment 83


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Feb 8, 2012, 12:38:26 PM (12 years ago)
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Christian Boos

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  • Ticket #9936, comment 83

    initial v1  
    77 - Ideally we should have neither false positive, nor false negatives; that could be reachable:
    88   - if browsers would react on ETag like we hoped they would...
    9    - if we had a per-file fingerprinting based on content (might be too expensive?)
     9   - if we had a per-file fingerprinting based on content (might be too expensive? see also comment:9)
    1010 - The 'content' method was a way to get no false negatives, but at the expense of a prohibitive cost at start-up, and also had a high false positive rate (a change to //any// resource would trigger the reload of all the others)
    1111 - The other methods I proposed all have in common to have an even higher false positive rate (it's also a global change which would trigger the reload of all resources, and that change can even have nothing to do with a resource change), combined with a risk of false negatives which entirely depends on the procedure used...