Re: ETags vs Variants, was: Revising RFC2616 - what's happening

Sounds like a trigger to at least consider obsoleting, dropping or  
deprecating the feature.

Lisa

On Oct 22, 2006, at 5:22 AM, Henrik Nordstrom wrote:

>
> What we see today is that neither component really cares. Most servers
> forgets to send Vary headers when they should, instead using no- 
> cache to
> solve the problem. And most caches sees Vary too complex and reads it
> the same as no-store, or in some user-agent cases reads Vary  
> wrongly as
> "no-cache" (need to revalidate on every request) and additionally
> getting the validation completely wrong.