- From: Paul Leach <paulle@microsoft.com>
- Date: Thu, 4 Jan 96 13:33:34 PST
- To: http-caching@pa.dec.com, mogul@pa.dec.com
It seems pretty straightforward that if a proxy forwards a POST, and gets back a Location: URI and Expires: or Cache-Control: headers that say that the returned entity will be fresh for some period of time, it should be able to serve that entity safely from the cache for that period of time, and do GET I-M-Ss on it after that time to determine if it is still fresh. Maybe very few POSTs will do this, because most POSTs are for dynamically generated content, but that doesn't affect the correctness of the argument. A very similar argument applies to PUT. Paul
Received on Thursday, 4 January 1996 21:39:48 UTC