- From: Koen Holtman <koen@win.tue.nl>
- Date: Thu, 4 Apr 1996 11:25:43 +0200 (MET DST)
- To: mogul@pa.dec.com (Jeffrey Mogul)
- Cc: koen@win.tue.nl, http-caching@pa.dec.com
Jeffrey Mogul: > > In private e-mail, Roy, Jeff, and I agreed that HTTP could require > this ignoring of Cache-control to be _detectable_ by the origin > server. If a cache is operating under a situation where it is > ignoring caching header, it should include a > > Cache-control: max-stale=<something> > > header in the request. Origin servers could, on detecting this > header, deny service if caching would violate law. > >For the record, I never agreed to this, and will never agree to it. I believe you did, though you told me at the time that you would need reminding of the details. I'll forward you the message I was talking about. If I misunderstood you then, and if you do not agree to detectability requirements, then we have a huge problem: many members of the state management group, including me, won't settle for a 1.1 protocol that allows caches to be non-transparent without the origin server being able to detect it, because such a protocol will not allow safe deployment of cookies. If you think these detectability requirements are unacceptable, this could block easily consensus about http 1.1. >-Jeff Koen.
Received on Thursday, 4 April 1996 09:50:18 UTC