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 |A lot of web pages today are dynamic and so uncacheable, even though large parts of them are the same between requests. The rsync protocol is a great way of sending the deltas between two similar files in a small number of bytes. tridge has done a proof of concept, using proxies and [http://librsync.sourceforge.net/ librsync], for caching everything and using rsync to send deltas instead of complete pages when things change a bit. This has the potential to transform the web experience for users on slow connections. The project would be to fix up his proxy, and make a matching Firefox extension which together would form a proof of concept.
 |Gerv
-|I hope to get tridge to mentor or co-mentor, but haven't heard back
+|tridge has agreed to co-mentor, but we need a Mozilla person who thinks this is cool to mentor as well.
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