Re: NEW ISSUE: Methods and Caching

Henrik Nordstrom wrote:
> ...
> Extension methods MAY define their own cache rules, but only applies to
> caches implementing the same. PROPFIND has already been mentioned in
> this discussion and as a note can be mentioned that a cache which only
> implements the base HTTP/1.1 specifications will invalidate any cached
> objects on the URI when seeing a PROPFIND request for that URI.
> ...

The method registry we're building 
(<http://greenbytes.de/tech/webdav/draft-ietf-httpbis-method-registrations-00.html>) 
will tell implementers that PROPFIND is safe -- that should be 
sufficient for not requiring invalidate, right?

BR, Julian

Received on Tuesday, 18 November 2008 18:04:33 UTC