127354 - System to prevent slashdot-effects, bandwidth bottle necks and server bandwidth quota

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Core :: Networking: Cache, enhancement, P5)

Description

[marni894]

(Since Blue Sky appears shut down I'll add this here instead)

Export everyones cache-files on a peer-to-peer network, like the Kazaa network. 
When a download has taken more than a certain amount of time and the rest of the 
download is predicted to take more than another amount of time a question is 
send out on the P2P network. Care must of course be taken so that not private 
data is exported from ones cache.

The browser could also keep track of all downloaded files in an internal 
database and export them as well, as long as they are unmodified.

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

This could be done as an add-on to mozilla using the cache apis.  I don't think
this belongs in the core browser.

Comment 2

[gordon]

I agree with Boris.  Marking WONTFIX.