Re: Warning:

Jeffrey Mogul:
>
>After thinking about Ted's suggestion for a "Customizable Warning",
>I decided to include this:
>
>   98 Customizable warning
[...]
>   99 Miscellaneous warning

These semantics look good to me. 

But if you want to require caches to (not) take certain actions on
getting a 98, even though a "Cache-control: no-cache" header is not
present in the response, the header for sending the 98 code should not
be called `warning'.  To me, a warning message is something I may
always choose to ignore.  What about calling it 'cache-exception' or
something?  `The cache-exception response header field is used to
signal exceptional situations in which the normal caching rules do not
apply, or could not be applied, to clients in the response chain'.

>-Jeff

Koen.

Received on Thursday, 4 April 1996 11:49:40 UTC