- From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2008 20:28:46 +0200
- To: Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net>
- CC: Brian Smith <brian@briansmith.org>, 'HTTP Working Group' <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
Mark Nottingham wrote: >> I think it would be better to say: "For each request URI, an origin >> server >> SHOULD return the same Vary header field value for every request." In >> this >> way, the Vary header is not just a response header but a "resource >> header". > > That is exactly how Vary doesn't work, and the interpretation that we're > trying to avoid. Right. >> Clients, intermediaries, and servers should always be able to >> canonicalize >> headers in any situation. Putting a specific statement about it here >> imples >> there are some cases in which canonicalization is not allowed. I suggest >> leaving this part out. > > Enough people have had questions about this that it's worthwhile calling > out explicitly, AFAICT. > > Others? I'd put it in; but maybe the topic could be mentioned in a more generic context again. BR, Julian
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