Re: I-D ACTION:draft-kristol-http-state-info-01.txt, .ps

Shel Kaphan writes:
[bne]
>  > ... 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
              ^in a shared cache
>  > 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>.
>  > 
[Shel]
> 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.
Oops, dumb cut&paste. Thanks!

Andrew (Endre Balint Nagy) <bne@bne.ind.eunet.hu>

Received on Wednesday, 27 September 1995 14:44:34 UTC