- From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2008 08:08:43 +0100
- To: Henrik Nordstrom <henrik@henriknordstrom.net>
- CC: Yves Lafon <ylafon@w3.org>, Brian Smith <brian@briansmith.org>, mnot@mnot.net, Robert.Siemer-httpwg@backsla.sh, ietf-http-wg@w3.org
Henrik Nordstrom wrote: > On tis, 2008-11-18 at 19:03 +0100, Julian Reschke wrote: > >> 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? > > The issue with this is that the implementer must care to look up the > PROPFIND method and special-case it in the implementation. Yes. But at least there'll be a single place to lookup that information. > The default for anything non-GET/HEAD is invalidate, and there is no way > that's going to change. The opposite would be very dangerous to any new > method added. I disagree with the "very" dangerous. Only one cache will see the method invocation, so other caches will not be invalidated either way. BR, Julian
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