[josm-dev] New startup page not deployed

Dirk Stöcker openstreetmap at dstoecker.de
Sun Aug 18 19:41:23 UTC 2013


On Sun, 18 Aug 2013, colliar wrote:

> E.g. it is Ok for me but from a developer point of view, why do we not
> use hashes to verify the cache and download if hashes differ ?

Because to use a hash you need to download the page and actually we want 
to prevent unnecessary downloads. Same when using the HEAD call. It saves 
transfer of the content, but still you need to make a network call.

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