- From: Larry Masinter <masinter@parc.xerox.com>
- Date: Mon, 30 Sep 1996 14:03:12 PDT
- To: koen@win.tue.nl
- Cc: http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com
You are concerned about destroying the effectiveness of caches when using Accept: <negotiable> and Vary: accept to designate variations on some header other than Accept, e.g., Accept-Language. Your example is where variants available in languages `en' and `nl', user requests `dk'. However, this concern is primarily aimed at the situation where the cache is unaware of transparent content negotiation. If the cache _is_ aware of transparent content negotiation, it can engage in content negotiation directly itself, can't it?
Received on Monday, 30 September 1996 14:08:07 UTC