- From: Roy T. Fielding <fielding@liege.ICS.UCI.EDU>
- Date: Sat, 01 Jun 1996 03:32:43 -0700
- To: hardie@nasa.gov
- Cc: http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com
> In 12.1 (second to last paragraph)
>
> I believe it would be clearer to say:
>
> The Vary header field lists the request header fields which might
> cause the response to vary.
>
> than:
>
> The Vary header field describes the dimensions over which the response
> might vary (i.e. the dimensions over which the origin server picks its
> "best guess" response from multiple representations).
>
> The replacement language is shorter and fits more closely with the
> text in 13.5.
Nope, it ignores the case of "Vary: *". The original is correct.
...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/
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