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How would system-wide caching work unless the HTTP server dropbox requested the file from sent a checksum of the file being requested? Just because something ha
by JosephRedfern 13y ago
How would system-wide caching work unless the HTTP server dropbox requested the file from sent a checksum of the file being requested? Just because something has the same URL doesn't mean that it's the same file at the other end (http://wordpress.org/latest.tar.gz http://wordpress.org/latest.tar.gz for instance)
- varenc 13y agoIt obey's HTTP caching controls. Checkout the end of the docs: https://www.dropbox.com/developers/dropins/saver https://www.dropbox.com/developers/dropins/saver
- JosephRedfern 13y agoI see - but the typical dropbox deduplication methods wouldn't work here (at least not in terms of bandwidth usage), would they?