- From: Ari Luotonen <luotonen@netscape.com>
- Date: Mon, 13 Nov 1995 16:46:41 -0800 (PST)
- To: Simon Spero <ses@tipper.oit.unc.edu>
- Cc: montulli@mozilla.com, masinter@parc.xerox.com, ietf-lists@proper.com, http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com
> Unfortunately, this isn't true. The rule is: if you see a response code > that you don't understand, you must treat it as if the code was <N>00, > where <N> is the first character of the response code. Thus, a conformant > HTTP/1.0 system should treat a code '205' as code '200'. Nevertheless, the current practice in proxies is to be safe and not cache anything that isn't 200. So it will be backwords compatible with existing implementations. Cheers, -- Ari Luotonen ari@netscape.com Netscape Communications Corp. http://home.netscape.com/people/ari/ 501 East Middlefield Road Mountain View, CA 94043, USA Netscape Server Development Team
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