Re: 13.1.2 Warnings

You've made a convincing case that the existing design for Warning
can yield bogus Warnings when HTTP/1.0 and HTTP/1.1 caches are
combined.  (I believe we wrote the HTTP/1.1 caching rules so that
an HTTP/1.1 cache in the position of your cache "B" would remove
the Warning after doing a successful validation from cache "A",
but of course it's too late to apply that to the HTTP/1.0 caches
out there.)

So please suggest a solution!

I can see three options:
	(1) Live with it.  This can only happen when an HTTP/1.0
	cache is a client of an HTTP/1.1 cache, and presumably
	in somewhat unusual cases, so maybe it's a temporary
	problem.
	(2) Remove Warning: stale from the protocol, on the grounds
	that it's better to silently give many users stale pages,
	instead of bogusly warning a few users about non-stale pages.
	[I don't consider this option to be a wise choice.]
	(3) Fix the design so that it works with HTTP/1.0 caches.
	Perhaps, for example, this means that one can't send a
	"Warning" to an HTTP/1.0 client (but this would also
	cause a lack of Warning in cases where it would be
	apppropriate).

One possibility: HTTP/1.1 clients (the only ones that could
care about a Warning header anyway) should turn a Reload on
a page with a "Warning: stale" into a "Pragma: no-cache".  That
would cause a few extra cache misses, but would break the
infinite loop that you are worried about.

-Jeff