Re: Fwd:HTTP server driven content negotiation

At 15:11 3/8/99 +0100, Johan Hjelm wrote:

>>HTTP 1.1 has the Vary tag and the concept of server driven content
>>negotiation.  However, I found the use of the Vary tag somewhat vague.
>>Anyone have any experience with this tag?  Is there more info somewhere at
>>W3C on this - from the HTTP 1.1 author perhaps?

The vary header field is a mechanism for the origin server to tell a cache
what it used in the request to generate that particular response. As this
is not the case in a push situation, it really doesn't help that much.

Henrik
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Received on Monday, 8 March 1999 09:44:14 UTC