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A Cache Digest is a summary of the contents of an Internet Object Caching Server. It contains, in a compact (i.e. compressed) format, an indication of whether or not particular URLs are in the cache. A “lossy” technique is used for compression, which means that very high compression factors can be achieved at the expense of not having 100% correct information.
