[Zope-dev] XMLRPCMethod product

[Paul Everitt]

Andrew wrote:
> Caching is an interesting problem.  Who can know whether a given
> XML-RPC method is returning relatively static data that's constant for
> several hours, or transient data that changes a lot?  Only the XML-RPC
> server, and maybe the caller, can know this.  I don't think a solution
> is possible until XML-RPC supports some way to signal whether a
> method's results are cacheable or not, so I don't think caching is
> possible at this point in time.

Aren't HTTP headers appropriate for this?  That is, don't think of it as
part of the payload (XML), rather the transport (HTTP).  Make the
XMLRPCMethod have caching policies controlled by the various HTTP/1.0
(or 1.1) HTTP headers.

Just my two cents.

--Paul

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