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Re:Using Immutable Caching to Speed Up the Web by taeric on Thursday January 26, 2017 @07:50PM (#13496834)
Linking by hash to all common resources would be bad. You do want fixes and updates, after all.
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Re:Using Immutable Caching to Speed Up the Web by jacobsenscott on Thursday January 26, 2017 @08:00PM (#13496876)
Links are already tied to some specific version. Nobody serves "jquery.js" that points to a constantly updated version of jquery. Nobody that's sane anyway.
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Re:Using Immutable Caching to Speed Up the Web by taeric on Thursday January 26, 2017 @08:56PM (#13497125)
Fair. My point was more that for many resources, you probably do appreciate this. Certainly package managers do this. Not sure why web would be different.
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