[plug] mirroring and updating a remote http directory

[James Devenish]

In message <1091779938.24691.21.camel at rasputin.localnet>
on Fri, Aug 06, 2004 at 04:12:18PM +0800, Craig Ringer wrote:
> Given that it's an antivirus company, I'd say they'll be doing
> everything they can to get clients to ALWAYS see the very latest
> version.

I don't understand your reasoning. There is only one version of each
file, hence the oldest version is also the very latest version. They
will force caches to refetch unmodified content (which is not nice for
byte-charged organisations).