- From: Paul Leach <paulle@microsoft.com>
- Date: Fri, 27 Mar 1998 16:43:02 -0800
- To: 'Jeffrey Mogul' <mogul@pa.dec.com>
- Cc: "'http-wg@cuckoo.hpl.hp.com'" <http-wg@cuckoo.hpl.hp.com>
> ---------- > From: Jeffrey Mogul[SMTP:mogul@pa.dec.com] > Sent: Friday, March 27, 1998 2:51 PM > To: http-wg@cuckoo.hpl.hp.com > Subject: Re: Comments on draft-ietf-http-v11-spec-rev-03 > > > How does > mark the cached object as "must-revalidate" > differ from > invalidate the cached object > In my mind, at least, invalidate implies "never return it in response to any later request", and usually, that means to delete it from the cache. Whereas "must-revalidate" implies "keep the bits in the cache, but do a conditional GET (or whatever) before returning them in any later request". Thus, even if they are technically identical, the implication I would form upon reading the two alternatives are quite different.
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