Re: ETags vs Variants, was: Revising RFC2616 - what's happening

On Oct 20, 2006, at 11:27 AM, Julian Reschke wrote:
> Well, that's clearer, but not my interpretation of what it should  
> say. Don't we want a missing header to be treated the same way as  
> an empty header?

Nope.  They usually don't mean the same thing (see Accept).

> That is, if the cache has a cached response from a previous request  
> with "Accept-Language: de", and the server replied with "Vary:  
> Accept-Language", can a subsequent request without "Accept- 
> Language" header be served with the cached reply? I wouldn't have  
> thought so....

No, we have no idea what the language pref algorithm is on the server.

....Roy

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