- From: Larry Masinter <masinter@parc.xerox.com>
- Date: Mon, 8 Apr 1996 17:28:36 PDT
- To: koen@win.tue.nl
- Cc: mogul@pa.dec.com, http-caching@pa.dec.com
I just had a lengthy conversation with a couple of folks developing web browsers for PDAs, where they expect long periods of disconnected operation and will want to cache pages until their devices come back in IR range. This application seems like a perfectly reasonable one where the cache is going to ignore any 'max-stale' requests, and I'd like to make sure that the wording in the spec makes their application continue to be legal, at least with some caveats. >I.e., you need an unavoidable mechanism to require at least conditional >validations on every access. but this really isn't possible. At best, the implementor of the PDA application can warn the user that the information is out of date.
Received on Tuesday, 9 April 1996 00:48:51 UTC