Re: Variant-ID proposal

At 05:45 PM 4/16/96 -0700, Roy T. Fielding wrote:
>So, I guess Koen was right in the first place -- the only time when
>variant-id MUST be included with the EID is when Vary is being used
>as the negotiation mechanism.  Likewise, Content-Location MUST be
>included with any response containing Alternates.
>
>The variant-id is only used as a cache key in the sense that it enables
>the cache to differentiate between entities varying by negotiation and
>entities varying over time.  It doesn't get used at all for transparent
>negotiation because the later requests all use specific Content-Location
>instead.

Whew - thank goodness.  Are we all on the same page again now?  With this
sentiment be reflected in the next spec (I hope, I hope)?


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Received on Wednesday, 17 April 1996 15:09:50 UTC