- From: Jeffrey Mogul <mogul@pa.dec.com>
- Date: Mon, 08 Apr 96 18:32:12 MDT
- To: Daniel DuBois <ddubois@spyglass.com>
- Cc: http-caching@pa.dec.com
I don't envision the PDA people implementing their browser that way, no matter how strongly we attempt to tell them what to do in the HTTP spec. More than likely they will put a "Failed to contact server, showing old page from cache." message in the status bar and display the page as normal. I'd guess they would willfully work outside the bounds of the HTTP spec before they would severly hinder their application in that manner. The fact remains that the PDA will have received the Cache-control: must-revalidate header and will be able to display an appropriate warning locally. I.e., I still think this is a sufficient mechanism in the protocol. We can quibble about what systems should do when they disobey the spec. -Jeff
Received on Tuesday, 9 April 1996 01:48:05 UTC