- From: John Franks <john@math.nwu.edu>
- Date: Thu, 30 Nov 1995 20:13:13 -0600 (CST)
- To: Jeffrey Mogul <mogul@pa.dec.com>
- Cc: dmk@allegra.att.com, http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com
According to Jeffrey Mogul: > > I'd vote to remove Unless and Logic Bags from the 1.1 spec, unless > or until we have a concensus that these are necessary. And I still > think we ought to be using a Cache-validator: header (syntax and > exact name to-be-determined, don't flame me about this!) with a 100% > opaque validator, rather than fooling around with elaborate schemes > that nobody seems to have any explicit need for. > I would also vote for an opaque cache validator. We would need an "If-cache-valid: <validator> " and an "If-cache-stale: <validator>" and we would need to specify their *semantics*. E.g. for a Range: request with an If-cache-valid header send the range if valid, else send entire document. John Franks
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