Re: Expires header vs Vary header

On Mon, 8 Dec 2003, Julian Reschke wrote:

> Until now all is working as expected, however after receiving a 304
> for the first time, Mozilla now issues the GET requests *every* time
> (instead of using the cached response for another 60 seconds).
>
> Removing the "Vary" header from the responses "fixes" this
> behaviour. Am I missing an dependency between "Vary" and "Expires"
> (and/or possible strong ETags) I should be aware of?

I am not aware of such dependencies. I would have guessed that Mozilla
does not update Expires header when receiving a 304 response, but then
it would probably not have worked without the Vary either.

Alex.