Closing #138: The role of Warning and Semantic Transparency in Caching

OK. I'd suggest that we can close #138 with p6-06, then.


On 07/04/2009, at 12:01 AM, Yves Lafon wrote:

> On Mon, 30 Mar 2009, Mark Nottingham wrote:
>
>>> 214 Transformation Applied is still a MUST which is a good thing.
>>> However 110 Response is stale should be back to MUST instead of  
>>> SHOULD, otherwise the client doesn't have a way to differentiate  
>>> the response. (but I know that IRL it's almost never done).
>>
>> If the response is stale, shouldn't that be detectable regardless  
>> by calculating its freshness lifetime and age independently?
>
> If the Age and Expiration informations are present, and if the  
> client implemented all the cache logic, instead of just having to  
> trust an upstream cache. I agree that it is quite minor...
>
> -- 
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>
>        ~~Yves
>
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