- From: John Franks <john@math.nwu.edu>
- Date: Mon, 11 Aug 1997 12:37:14 -0500 (CDT)
- To: Josh <josh@early.com>
- Cc: http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com
On Mon, 11 Aug 1997, Josh wrote: > My original problems werent about the POST issue, but how a > proxy would manage its cache. When it records the entity > in the cache, it would have a complicated heuristic to determine > the entity version. > Dealing with a messy version number and deciding when > an entity that you got from a 1.0 request is OK to serve > a subsequent 1.1 client request is tricky. > <snip> > > If the client is 1.1 and the server is 1.0, then the > response version is correct in indicating the entity version > number. > I don't believe this is correct, Josh. A 1.0 server responding to a 1.1 proxy may use any 1.1 feature it chooses and is still required to send a 1.0 version header. Indeed, encouraging this behavior is the rationale of the current specification. John Franks Dept of Math. Northwestern University john@math.nwu.edu
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