Hello,

I'm connecting to a site many, many times per day that's going to have only minor changes in many of the pages I view. Of the settings under "cached data is compared to network data", which will get me through the pages the fastest? My connection is not the best.

Thanks.

Still nobody seems sure enough to respond, so I'll give it a try:

I would use the "Automatically" option. Hopefully that one is optimized
in some intelligent way. (It probably uses the document's expiration time?)

But it depends: If you need to be sure that you *always* see the *current* (most
recent) version of the document, then you might want to use the "always" option.
That will cost you some time though.

Or maybe it's enough to check this once per session? Then use the "once per
session" option ;-)

I believe that the actual "comparison" implicates
- one connection between browser and web server (which takes a little time)
- and then transmission of a *small* amount of data (which takes a little time).
This data is used by the browser to determine whether or not it needs to reload the
whole document. This data could be the actual *lastModified date/time* of the
document, or it could be some MAC code or whatever, I don't know.

If it turns out that the browser needs to reload the document (if the online version is
more recent than your cached version), the reloading (which takes some time,
depending on the document size) is done, perhaps (depending on the server?) on
the same connection as was previously made.

/H