- From: Daniel DuBois <ddubois@spyglass.com>
- Date: Wed, 17 Apr 1996 21:15:31 -0500
- To: "Roy T. Fielding" <fielding@avron.ICS.UCI.EDU>, Jeffrey Mogul <mogul@pa.dec.com>
- Cc: Koen Holtman <koen@win.tue.nl>, http-caching@pa.dec.com
At 05:45 PM 4/16/96 -0700, Roy T. Fielding wrote:
>So, I guess Koen was right in the first place -- the only time when
>variant-id MUST be included with the EID is when Vary is being used
>as the negotiation mechanism. Likewise, Content-Location MUST be
>included with any response containing Alternates.
>
>The variant-id is only used as a cache key in the sense that it enables
>the cache to differentiate between entities varying by negotiation and
>entities varying over time. It doesn't get used at all for transparent
>negotiation because the later requests all use specific Content-Location
>instead.
Whew - thank goodness. Are we all on the same page again now? With this
sentiment be reflected in the next spec (I hope, I hope)?
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Received on Wednesday, 17 April 1996 15:09:50 UTC