- From: Ross Patterson <Ross_Patterson@ns.reston.vmd.sterling.com>
- Date: Tue, 23 Sep 97 15:40:22 EDT
- To: http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com
Larry Masinter <masinter@parc.xerox.com> writes: >I would like to resolve a long-standing controversy in the HTTP >working group, by trying to assess the group consensus. > > draft-fielding-http-age-00.txt > Roy Fielding, "Age Header Field in HTTP/1.1" > > draft-mogul-http-age-00.txt > Jeff Mogul, "Generation of the Age header field in HTTP/1.1" After reviewing both drafts and dredging my mail logs for the on-list debate, I have to side with Jeff Mogul's take on the issue, both in terms of analysis and in his recommendation of "Interpretation C". I understand Roy Fielding's concern about heirarchical proxies and bandwidth, but from my company's experience I have to believe that the correct approach is to always return the right response no matter how much bandwidth it wasted. Ross Patterson Sterling Software, Inc. VM Software Division
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