- From: Shel Kaphan <sjk@amazon.com>
- Date: Wed, 27 Sep 1995 10:04:47 -0700
- To: Balint Nagy Endre <bne@bne.ind.eunet.hu>
- Cc: dmk@allegra.att.com, http WG <http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
Balint Nagy Endre writes: > Dave, > this version of state-info draft is fine, I suggest only a minor > change. > > In section talking on caches, you recommended the use > Cache-Control: no-cache and pre-expiration. > > I think, the suggested usage should be: > ... Generally a *response* that has associated State-Info header should not > be cached: either the entity body or the State-Info in the response usually > is specific to a particular user. The origin server MUST notify intermediate > caches not to cache them. To inhibit caching, the origin server SHOULD use > one of the standard mechanisms that inhibit caching such as > Cache-Control: private, Cache-Control: no-cache *and* Expires: <yesterday>. > To be clear, Cache-control: private doesn't inhibit *all* caching. It is fine to cache pages with state-info in the end-user's private cache.
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