- From: Roy T. Fielding <fielding@avron.ICS.UCI.EDU>
- Date: Mon, 13 Nov 1995 17:06:27 -0800
- To: Simon Spero <ses@tipper.oit.unc.edu>
- Cc: http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com
Simon said: > Lou- the 205 response is not part of http/1.0 as described, and this can > lead to some caching confusion; if a 1.1 client is talking through a 1.0 > proxy to a 1.1 client, and a partial fetch is done, it's possible to the > 1.0 proxy to keep a copy of the partial contents, yet not be aware that > the contents are bogus- the next client to do a fetch could end up with > partial data, yet not be aware of it. That is not true of correct caching implementations. A cache cannot store responses with a status code other than 200 unless the response include an Expires header (or, now, a Cache-Control header) which indicates that the response is cachable. ....Roy
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