On Fri, 14 Apr 2000, Dawit A wrote:
> On Wed, 12 Apr 2000, Waldo Bastian wrote:
> > Currently if we have a cache hit, we don't do communication at all, which
> > means that you can browse without Internet connection, as long as all
> > pages are in your cache :-)
>
> I am going to work on the cookie issues that were discussed over the
> weekend. I am also start on the GUI front-end to the manage the cookies. 
> As soon as I am done with that I will see if I can implement the cache
> functionality.  It seems relatively simple, at at least conceptually, to
> work around the local browsing issue your brought up.  First, it will be an
> option that people will have to turn off.  By default it would be off for
> the reasons mentioned below ( privacy ). 

We can have a three-state "Use cache" option: always/check/never. I think we 
had that in KDE1.1.2, although iI don't believe it ever did something usefull 
there :)

>  Then if the user willingly turned
> it on we can use HEAD to verify the cache copy against the one on the
> server.  If the the request fails then we can simply fall back to the old
> copy, right ??

Yes, but the main problem is that it can take a very long time to connect to 
the remote server.

Cheers,
Waldo