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I get that this is data that Fastly has to send but doesn’t get to bill directly to customers, but don’t expect ME to care about this until the average news art
by ggg9990 8y ago
I get that this is data that Fastly has to send but doesn’t get to bill directly to customers, but don’t expect ME to care about this until the average news article stops sending me 10 MB.
- manigandham 8y agoFastly is a CDN that charges by requests + bandwidth, so it absolutely makes money from extra headers on responses no matter how small.
- ggg9990 8y agoI don’t know how they bill. If it is just the Content-Length then they eat the cost of the header.
- ggg9990 8y agoAlso, I can’t see any other reason they’d care. Who does the header harm?
- manigandham 8y agoYou seem to be taking this way too critically. It's a simple article that's looking at the typical headers in responses and showing which ones probably are outdated or unnecessary. If you have 10 hits per day, it doesn't matter. For others that send billions of requests, it might just make a material difference.