- From: Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>
- Date: Sat, 8 Dec 2007 21:39:10 +0000
- To: Subbu Allamaraju <subbu.allamaraju@gmail.com>
- Cc: Henrik Nordstrom <henrik@henriknordstrom.net>, Andrew Daviel <advax@triumf.ca>, ietf-http-wg@w3.org
Subbu Allamaraju wrote: > > I have a question. Is the server required to supply a Vary header when > it did not actually vary the current response? > > In the example below, in the absence of a header line > Accept-Geo-Position in the request, the server may be returning a > generic response. In this case, I would assume that the server will > not set the Vary header. I am unable to find any reference to this in > 2616. Hence the question. You said the server returns a generic reponse, and it does not vary the response. Well, does the server supply a different response when there is an Accept-Geo-Position in the request? If it does, that _is_ varying the response, and you've contradicted yourself, and it should use the Vary header. -- Jamie
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