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Re: Data Integrity

From: Ted Hardie <hardie@merlot.arc.nasa.gov>
Date: Thu, 15 Feb 1996 15:24:42 -0800 (PST)
Message-Id: <199602152324.PAA18391@merlot.arc.nasa.gov>
To: hardie@nasa.gov
Cc: sjk@amazon.com, http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com
Sorry, finger-freeze.  I meant cache-control: reload from clients
and cache-control: no-cache from servers.

				Ted
> 
> Shel Kaplan writes:
> > This points to the likelihood of confusion when overloading the same
> > token (``no-cache'') with a meaning in both requests and responses.
> > In Roy's proposed spec for HTTP 1.1, cache-control: no-cache in
> > requests indicates that the request cannot be serviced by any
> > intermediate server -- only the origin server.  In responses,
> > cache-control: no-cache indicates that the response cannot be stored
> > in a cache.  So the hypothetical implementor you describe would be
> > wrong to make that assumption.
> > 
> > --Shel
> > 
> 
> I believe switching to cache-control: reload from clients and 
> cache-control: no-cache would solve this particular confusion.
> 
> 				Ted
> 
> 
Received on Thursday, 15 February 1996 15:21:24 UTC

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