A while back I mentioned Joe Gregorio’s httplib2 library. Now he has an article on XML.com called Doing HTTP Caching Right: Introducing httplib2.

Quoth Joe:

You need to understand HTTP caching. No, really, you do. I have mentioned repeatedly that you need to choose your HTTP methods carefully when building a web service, in part because you can get the performance benefits of caching with GET. Well, if you want to get the real advantages of GET then you need to understand caching and how you can use it effectively to improve the performance of your service.

The tutorial doesn’t explain how to set up web caching per se, but it’s pretty detailed in covering the web client end of things. Good article.

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