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Comment by tekno45

17 hours ago

how is https making caching irrelevant?

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pat2man  9 hours ago

At one point with http only your isp could do its own cache, large corporate it networks could have a cache, etc. which was very efficient for caching. But horrible for privacy. Now we have CDN edge caching etc but nothing like the multi layer caching that was available with http.

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