Re: 13.1.2 Warnings

Ari Luotonen wrote:
> 
> 
> > - HTTP/1.1 & digest:
> >    Expecting RFC Real Soon Now.
> >    Complaints, editorial advice, ambiguities welcome.
> 
> 13.1.2 Warnings says:
> 
>     ...
>     Warnings are always cachable, because they never weaken the transparency
>     of a response. This means that warnings can be passed to HTTP/1.0 caches
>     without danger; such caches will simply pass the warning along as an
>     entity-header in the response.
>     ...
> 
> This is not right.  HTTP/1.0 cache will cache this header, and the
> Warning will remain in the cache file even if the entity is up-to-date
> checked later.  So clients could e.g. see a warning saying that the
> response may be stale even if the proxy just did an up-to-date check
> and it was ok.

Wouldn't that mean that the HTTP/1.0 cache was out-of-date wrt the upstream
cache (and hence would refetch and lose the warning header)? Or am I missing
something?

Cheers,

Ben.

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