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It would be interesting if browsers start implementing a content-addressable cache. So as well as caching resource by URI also cache by hash. Then SRI requests could be served even if the URL was different.

Of course this would need a proposal or something but it would be interesting to consider.



Plan9's Venti file storage system is content addressable.

http://plan9.bell-labs.com/sys/doc/venti/venti.html

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