- From: Daniel DuBois <ddubois@rafiki.spyglass.com>
- Date: Thu, 28 Dec 1995 09:04:19 -0600
- To: Jeffrey Mogul <mogul@pa.dec.com>, http-caching@pa.dec.com
>I can think of at least one important case where a simple optimization >might work nicely: when the server *knows* that there is exactly >one response no matter what preferences are expressed (i.e., there >are no other variants besides the current response), then it could >mark the response as "non-varying". This would allow the cache One URL in the URI header would indicate there being only one variant. But even in that case, it's unacceptable to serve up anything without checking the content negotiation algorithm. You can't send back text/html to someone who sends "Accept: text/html;q=0.0". ----- Dan DuBois, Software Animal http://www.spyglass.com/~ddubois/ I absolutely do not speak for Spyglass.
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