Re: ISSUE VARY: Proposed wording

Jeffrey Mogul:
[...]
>How about
>    The Vary field value indicates the set of request-header fields
>    that fully determines, while the response is fresh, whether a cache
>    may use the response to reply to a subsequent request without
>    revalidation.  For uncachable or stale responses, the Vary field
>    value advises the user agent about the criteria that were used to
>    select the representation.  A Vary field value of ``*'' implies
>    that a cache cannot determine from the request headers of a
>    subsequent request whether this response is the appropriate
>    representation.
>
>I know this is a little longer than the original, but I think
>it is probably less ambiguous.

This is a great improvement, I support it going in.

>-Jeff

Koen.