Important NetNewsWire Lite Update

2002-10-22 19:12 ☼ post

Net NewsWire Lite 1.0.2.b2 has a most significant change:

Reduces bandwidth consumption by supporting ETag and Last-Modified headers as detailed on this page.

Oddly enough I was actually already familiar with this idea thanks to some delving into the http protocol I did a few years back while playing around with creating a Mac Livejournal client I called LizardJuice. I never got around to polishing everything up and releasing it, but I did learn a few things while working on it which was the main thing anyway..