Re: Questions (errata?) about caching authenticated responses [#174]

I haven't heard any comment on this proposal. I *think* it accurately reflects what's in 2616, and AFAICT from the history, what's in 2616 was intentional. 

Thoughts?


On 02/06/2010, at 2:54 PM, Mark Nottingham wrote:

> 
> Counter-proposal:
> 
> Add a new section to p6:
> 
> ---8<---
> Shared Caching of Authenticated Responses
> 
> Shared caches MUST NOT use a cached response to a request with an Authorization [ref] header to satisfy any subsequent request unless a cache directive that allows such responses to be stored is present in the response.
> 
> In this specification, the following Cache-Control response directives [ref] have such an effect: must-revalidate, public, s-maxage.
> 
> Note that cached responses that contain the "must-revalidate" and/or "s-maxage" response directives are not allowed to be served stale [ref] by shared caches. In particular, a response with either "max-age=0, must-revalidate" or "s-maxage=0" cannot be used to satisfy a subsequent request without revalidating it on the origin server. 
> --->8---
> 
> ... with appropriate changes to p6 2.1, 2.2, as well as the definitions of the Auth header and appropriate CC directives.


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