Re: NEW: #235: Cache Invalidation only happens upon successful responses

On Mon, 26 Jul 2010, Mark Nottingham wrote:

> Good point.
>
> How about non-5xx status code?

Well, 405 or 413 should not trigger invalidation. We need 2xx plus status 
code that are making an assertion about the state of the 
possibly updated representation.

> On 25/07/2010, at 5:19 PM, Moore, Jonathan wrote:
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>> By successful response, do you mean "received a response successfully" 
>> or "received a response with a 2xx response code"? If the former, I 
>> think I'd agree, but if the latter, there are definitely non-2xx 
>> response codes that would still give an indication that a cached entry 
>> wasn't valid anymore (for example, a 404).
>>
>> Jon
>> ........
>> Jon Moore
>>
>>
>> On Jul 24, 2010, at 11:22 AM, "Mark Nottingham" <mnot@mnot.net> wrote:
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>>> <http://trac.tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/ticket/235>
>>>
>>> Any objection to specifying that invalidation only happens upon a 
>>> successful response (as opposed to any POST/PUT/DELETE/etc. response)?
>>>
>>> --
>>> Mark Nottingham     http://www.mnot.net/
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