- From: Roy T. Fielding <fielding@liege.ICS.UCI.EDU>
- Date: Fri, 29 Nov 1996 03:29:25 -0800
- To: http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com
> FWIW, I think the age calculation is conservative to a fault and would > prefer to see it change, but I don't share Roy's passion. > > I consider the issue of whether or not to add an Age: header (with any > value) to a response that was NOT served from cache to be a different issue > entirely, and feel more strongly that a proxy should not add an Age: to a > fresh response. Just to clarify, that is the only objection I have related to the age calculation. The rest of the algorithm is fine, as I said before, and I have yet to see a technical argument from *anybody* which would indicate that the part I object to is not in error. The only responses I have received are churlish suppositions about my philosophy of HTTP caching being different from others, and statements that it wasn't "significant enough" to justify generation of a new draft before IESG approval last summer. In fact, our last discussion on this subject ended with (what appeared to me) a clear consensus that it was an error that would be placed on the Issues list for the next revision, and thus it was appropriate to steer implementers away from the error. If someone has such an argument that doesn't involve childish assumptions about my intentions, please do let us know. I would rather be proven wrong than be left in doubt, since this does have a significant impact on the cachability of HTTP and thus the core of what I spent two years of my life working towards. Please forgive me if I am passionate about it. ......Roy
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