- From: Jeffrey Mogul <mogul@pa.dec.com>
- Date: Fri, 18 Aug 95 19:17:43 MDT
- To: Jeffrey Mogul <mogul@pa.dec.com>
- Cc: http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com
I wrote:
How about doing things the other way? Any cache (including
one inside the user agent) that returns a possibly invalid
object must mark it with (of course) a new header:
Possibly-invalid : <reason-why-string>
The reason-why-string would be some sort of explanation of what
is suspect. For example, "server is down, this is 1 hour old"
Oops. How small-minded of me. This can't just be a string, since
that would only be useful if the proxy spoke the same language as
the users. Which is likely to be true, but it's probably not guaranteed.
So I guess we would need some sort of scheme of coded responses,
allowing the browser to turn them into human language. It would be
nice to include some parameters, though.
-Jeff
Received on Friday, 18 August 1995 19:21:45 UTC