- From: Henrik Nordström <henrik@henriknordstrom.net>
- Date: Mon, 07 Jan 2008 00:35:35 +0100
- To: Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net>
- Cc: Werner Baumann <werner.baumann@onlinehome.de>, ietf-http-wg@w3.org
mån 2008-01-07 klockan 09:35 +1100 skrev Mark Nottingham: > Upon what basis does the client cache the representation it sent, if > it's just working within the standards? I.e., how does it derive a > freshness lifetime? > > At best, it seems to me that it could cache what it sent as stale, but > it'd need to validate the ETag it was given before serving it as fresh. Yes, and such validation would say "Not modified, and fresh for X amount of time". Even if the resource representation on the server differs from what the client sent in the PUT. Freshness is a different question really. Regards Henrik
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