Re: NEW ISSUE: Methods and Caching

On tis, 2008-11-18 at 19:03 +0100, Julian Reschke wrote:

> The method registry we're building 
> (<http://greenbytes.de/tech/webdav/draft-ietf-httpbis-method-registrations-00.html>) 
> will tell implementers that PROPFIND is safe -- that should be 
> sufficient for not requiring invalidate, right?

The issue with this is that the implementer must care to look up the
PROPFIND method and special-case it in the implementation.

The default for anything non-GET/HEAD is invalidate, and there is no way
that's going to change. The opposite would be very dangerous to any new
method added.

Regards
Henrik

Received on Tuesday, 18 November 2008 21:09:57 UTC