- From: Koen Holtman <koen@win.tue.nl>
- Date: Wed, 29 May 1996 20:33:47 +0200 (MET DST)
- To: Daniel DuBois <dan@spyglass.com>
- Cc: fielding@liege.ICS.UCI.EDU, http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com, dan@spyglass.com
Daniel DuBois:
>
>>According to Draft 03:
>>
>> In a request message on a generic resource, the selecting request
>> headers are those request headers whose contents were used by the origin
>> server to select the entity best matching the request. The Vary header
>> field specifies the selecting request headers and any other selection
>> parameters that were used by the origin server.
>
>> GET /fred HTTP/1.1 French html French html
>> Host: www.ics.uci.edu [no Vary header] Vary: Accept,
>> Accept-Language
>
>You're example is absolutely correct. I think this is a case of cofusing
>wording in the draft. I don't/can't beleive that is how Koen meant for it
>to be interpreted. "Those request headers" do not necessarily have to be a
>subset of the request headers that were present in the GET /fred request,
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Ah! _Now_ I see the problem with my description. I guess that Roy is
right after all on this, and that I must have read my text so often in
the past that I have become completely insensitive to errors in it.
Koen.
Received on Wednesday, 29 May 1996 11:38:44 UTC