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>but if the web were content addressed instead of server addressed you could then be serving that cache to your municipality even after it became disconnected f
by charcircuit 2mo ago
>but if the web were content addressed instead of server addressed you could then be serving that cache to your municipality even after it became disconnected from the rest of the internet.
This is already possible without content addressing with CDNs. They can serve content from a local cache even when the host is disconnected from the internet.
- TeMPOraL 2mo agoAnd the first thing webdevs did once this became widely available, is change their apps to cache-bust their code; between that, and the short release periods in webshit ecosystem in general, and security and privacy considerations messing up things as usual, the promise of users mostly hitting just local cache with any marginal request, never materialized.
- __MatrixMan__ 2mo agoWithout content addressing how do I know that whoever holds the cache hasn't tampered with the content?
- charcircuit 2mo agoThe integrity attribute of the <link> element lets you provide a hash to ensure the content has not been tampered with.
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- __MatrixMan__ 2mo agoInteresting. Is this common? Like, is there some way to enable it on my LAN so that when I become disconnected from the internet I can still browse pages which were cached by other devices on that LAN?
- charcircuit 2mo agoIt's part of the HTML on the page. It has nothing to do with your LAN.