Re: Etag-on-write, 2nd attempt (== IETF draft 01)

Jamie Lokier schrieb:
> Julian Reschke wrote:
>> The problem here is the definition of "semantic effect". It all depends 
>> on the client. An XCAP client will not consider XML reformatting to be 
>> important, as long as the Infoset is preserved.
> 
> Even if there is a proxy cache in the network between the XCAP client
> and the server, and the proxy cache does partial discard of large
> entities, and byte-range requests (with If-Match) to refresh them?
> 
> I think even an XCAP client would be lost in that case.

Jamie,

again: my understanding is that proxies are not allowed to cache the 
response from a PUT, thus this isn't a problem.

Best regards, Julian

Received on Thursday, 14 September 2006 12:41:53 UTC