1. A Few Notes On HTTP
It’s How The Web Works, Stupid!
Pierre Phaneuf <pphaneuf@gmail.com>
2. HTTP is core
Regular web browser
AJAX
XML-RPC, SOAP
WebDAV, CalDAV, Subversion
Atom Publishing Protocol
3. Caching
We all know HTTP caching is important, like
flossing, and most of us leave it at that, like
flossing —— David Heinemeier Hansson
Set the Expires header
Use 301 instead of 302 when applicable
4. But My Site Is Dynamic!
Set the Last-Modified header
Set the ETag header
But beware!
Frameworks are silly sometimes
Clustering (inode numbers)