Re: NEW ISSUE: Methods and Caching

No. Although there are a number of aspects here that aren't clearly  
specified, 2616 does clearly state that POST must be written through.


On 17/11/2008, at 9:54 PM, Robert Siemer wrote:

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> On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 04:22:13PM -0600, Mark Nottingham wrote:
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>> AIUI it's implied by the combination of POST being explicitly
>> cacheable, but being required to be written through. Freshness can't
>> be used, and validation is fraught with difficulty.
>
> You read that it is implied that POST responses can be used for GET, I
> read that POSTs don't have to be written through.
>
>
> R
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