design choice: multi-threaded / asynchronous wxpython client?

[Jarkko Torppa]

On 2008-04-27, David <wizzardx at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>  1) The data for the race about to start updates every (say) 15
>>  seconds, and the data for earlier and later races updates only every
>>  (say) 5 minutes. There is  no point for me to be hammering the server
>>  with requests every 15 seconds for data for races after the upcoming
>
> Try using an HTTP HEAD instruction instead to check if the data has
> changed since last time.

Get If-Modified-Since is still better
(http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec14.html 14.25)

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Jarkko Torppa