Hi, > suppose i had an arbitrarily load-balanced front-end web server environment. > a user throughout the lifetime of their session may get bounced to any of N > different web servers, all talking to the same couch instance (for > argument's sake). if these web servers are doing any kind of local caching If you want to cache the documents, why not use a Squid in front of the CouchDB?
But for the argument: you should probably at least do a HEAD request to get the document's ETAG, i.e. revision in order to avoid creating conflicts in you local cache... Daniel
