- From: Ari Luotonen <luotonen@neon.mcom.com>
- Date: Thu, 15 Dec 1994 18:58:45 -0800 (PST)
- To: "Daniel W. Connolly" <connolly@hal.com>
- Cc: fielding@avron.ICS.UCI.EDU, http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com
> The only thing that it _must_ do is issue _some_ URI: header with > a vary parameter if it's got variants. That's enough to prevent > proxies from jumping to conclusions. Ok, very good. > If the server gives an Expires: header, the proxy can conclude that > the variants are stable until then. Not necessarily -- take a Stephen King book "Killer Web". It's first published in English and put online. It's static data and practically never expires. A month later they publish it in Finnish, and a month after that in French. This still shouldn't impose that the English version expires once a month. And you can't know of the translation schedules beforehand in the first place anyway. Ok, so King probably would make this interactive book in which the plot changes as a function of time, number of people killed, and whether IT really died in part two... Cheers, -- Ari Luotonen http://home.mcom.com/people/ari/ Netscape Communications Corp. 650 Castro Street, Suite 500 Mountain View, CA 94041, USA
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