Re: HTTP Caching Design

• From: Roy T. Fielding <fielding@avron.ICS.UCI.EDU>
• Date: Wed, 10 Jan 1996 05:50:54 -0800
• To: Brian Gaines <gaines@cpsc.ucalgary.ca>
• Cc: http-caching@pa.dec.com
• Message-Id: <9601100550.aa08073@paris.ics.uci.edu>

>>BTW, "cachable" in HTTP means that the response may be reused as the response
>>for an equivalent future request -- it does not mean just "may be stored".
> 
> Roy, you cannot simply assert this, and it doesn't make sense to define it
> that way either (because a specialist use of a technical term defined in
> one place will often be forgotten in using the body of the spec).

Ummm, yes I can assert that, since all I was asserting is how I used the
term in my message and in the specs.  Since I failed to define it in the
specs, it seemed reasonable to define it now.  I am open to better
definitions, of course, and I agree with the definitions proposed for
history buffer in later messages.

....Roy

Received on Wednesday, 10 January 1996 14:53:41 UTC