Re: Summary of opinions on Negotiate header

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