- From: Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net>
- Date: Sat, 5 Jan 2008 19:04:29 +1100
- To: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Cc: HTTP Working Group <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
This is issue 96; <http://www3.tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/ticket/96> I've made it editorial. On 10/12/2007, at 2:53 AM, Julian Reschke wrote: > > Hi, > > apparently people are confused by the fact that the definition of > GET specifically mentions conditional headers: > > The semantics of the GET method change to a "conditional GET" if the > request message includes an If-Modified-Since, If-Unmodified-Since, > If-Match, If-None-Match, or If-Range header field. A conditional GET > method requests that the entity be transferred only under the > circumstances described by the conditional header field(s). The > conditional GET method is intended to reduce unnecessary network > usage by allowing cached entities to be refreshed without requiring > multiple requests or transferring data already held by the client. > -- <http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2616#section-9.3> > > Do we need to clarify that conditionals apply to all requests? (do > they?). > > BR, Julian > -- Mark Nottingham http://www.mnot.net/
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