- From: Roy T. Fielding <fielding@liege.ICS.UCI.EDU>
- Date: Sat, 01 Jun 1996 02:39:58 -0700
- To: jg@w3.org
- Cc: http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com
> ... HTTP/1.1 proxies MUST forward such requests to the origin server ...
It is very important that the HTTP spec never say the above. A proxy
must never be required to use resources, and a proxy/gateway cannot be
required to forward data (particularly through a firewall).
Jim, I think such statements are littered throughout the caching section.
Unfortunately, the correction will be context-dependent. I will try
to find them on my read-through, but you may want to do a global
find in your copy. Everyone else should look out for them as well.
...Roy T. Fielding
Department of Information & Computer Science (fielding@ics.uci.edu)
University of California, Irvine, CA 92717-3425 fax:+1(714)824-4056
http://www.ics.uci.edu/~fielding/
Received on Saturday, 1 June 1996 02:44:11 UTC