on 3/11/2003 4:56 PM Mark Crispin wrote: > Have you noticed that Pine *does* completely cache within a session? As > long as you don't give up the session, Pine will never re-fetch the same > data.
I'm not trying to start a religious war here, but how much work would it really be to have a protocol extension which allowed the client to request flags which have changed since <time>. It seems that all of the difficulty would be in the implementation (the server data-store), not in the protocol, and there would be significant benefits to having this option available in the protocol. Faster resynchronization between sessions would be very good for all clients, online and offline alike. In those cases where it was impractical to store this kind of information, the server wouldn't implement it, which is reasonable behavior for any optional extension. Ignoring the data-store issues which will dictate whether a specific server is able to implement the feature, how feasible would this be? -- Eric A. Hall http://www.ehsco.com/ Internet Core Protocols http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/coreprot/
