Looking back at this discussion, I think we have agreement to drop 'present' (as per Roy), and add the "When a resource's representations..." sentence. I don't see consensus to add language about canonicalising request headers (beyond the process described in p6 2.6). On 29/07/2008, at 1:18 AM, Mark Nottingham wrote: > > http://tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/ticket/37 > > Roy sort-of proposed deleting "present" in <http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/ietf-http-wg/2006OctDec/0090.html > > > > In addition, I'd propose: > > * adding: "When a resource's representations vary, an origin server > SHOULD include the Vary header even when the selecting header(s) are > not present; otherwise, caches will use that representation > inappropriately." > > * adding: "Caches MAY canonicalise request headers before comparing > them for purposes of determining whether they match during variant > selection." > > > -- > Mark Nottingham http://www.mnot.net/ > > -- Mark Nottingham http://www.mnot.net/Received on Wednesday, 6 May 2009 06:00:03 UTC
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