Re: Cache behavior in the absence of a Fresh-until: header from David W. Morris on 1996-01-10 (http-caching-historical@w3.org from January 1996)

From: David W. Morris <dwm@shell.portal.com>
Date: Tue, 9 Jan 1996 23:19:27 -0800 (PST)
To: HTTP Caching Subgroup <http-caching@pa.dec.com>
Message-Id: <Pine.SUN.3.90.960109231157.26917C-100000@jobe.shell.portal.com>

On Tue, 9 Jan 1996, Jeffrey Mogul wrote:

> On the other hand, something like "Cache-control: reload" is
> apparently procedural, but I suspect that we cannot do without
> a few such features.

Yes.  This is nice and clear.  And an example where there should be
no latitude for interpretation. It could read:
   Cache-control: MyUserNeedsAnExactCopyOfWhatTheOriginServerWouldNowServe
which in my english is declaritive with no latitude. But no advantage.

Given there is one, there are probably others. But in principal I 
agree as well with the general declaritive approach.

Dave Morris

Received on Wednesday, 10 January 1996 07:39:37 UTC