- From: Daniel Hellerstein <danielh@mailbox.econ.ag.gov>
- Date: Mon, 04 May 1998 15:44:54 -0400
- To: http-wg@cuckoo.hpl.hp.com
There may be cases where an origin server has semi-permanent
resources (that change every few hours or days). If these change
irregularly, allowing proxies to cache this may be problemmatic (i.e.;
one can not know a proper maxage value)
A second best solution would be to allow proxies to cache, but
insist they perform a conditional get (an If-modified of If-no-match)
before using the cached item.
>From my reading of the ver 3 spec, there's no way of doing this
("must-revalidate" sounds like it should, but it's really a "stale" modifier).
Am I missing something, or is there a notion that well designed caches
will make such an option unnecessary, or ....
Received on Monday, 4 May 1998 12:49:04 UTC