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Subject: Re: HTTP caching
From: unknown@simplemachines.org ("Unknown W. Brackets")

For what it's worth, this would be very nice.  I always use my own 
custom HTTP handling for this reason (and related reasons, such as 
keep-alive.)

However, it's also very complicated; the cached data has to be managed, 
has to be stored somewhere... and at what point do you add cookie 
management?

-[Unknown]


-------- Original Message --------

> Hello all,
> 
> I couldn't find if this is already implemented somehow. But I thought it 
> would be a nice idea to let the PHP http streams understand HTTP 
> caching. This could come in particularly handy when PHP is used to 
> consume REST-based webservices. (Perhaps in the future also for SOAP 1.2 
> GET requests.) People could simply take control of caching by setting 
> the Expires header of their service.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Bart