- From: Shel Kaphan <sjk@amazon.com>
- Date: Wed, 6 Sep 1995 12:02:10 -0700
- To: Roy Fielding <fielding@beach.w3.org>
- Cc: http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com
Roy Fielding writes: > >This usage encodes some very non-intuitive semantics in the Expires: > >heading. If you want to tell the proxy to cache a document but always > >validate it then create a header or Pragma to do that. > > Just as an informational point, I already included these semantics > in draft 01 for the "max-age" (now Cache-Control: max-age=NNN) parameter. > > ....Roy T. Fielding Department of ICS, University of California, Irvine USA > Visiting Scholar, MIT/LCS + World-Wide Web Consortium > (fielding@w3.org) (fielding@ics.uci.edu) So, in what sense, other than the representation of time, is this different from Expires (as a response header)? And if it is not different, why does it exist?
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