Re: i37: Vary and non-existant headers

On May 6, 2009, at 5:38 PM, David Morris wrote:
> On Thu, 7 May 2009, Mark Nottingham wrote:
>> and adding this to the subsequent paragraph (defining what it  
>> means to match):
>>
>> If a header field is absent from a a request, it can only match  
>> another request if it is also absent there.
>>
> Any reason we can't make an empty value == to absent for this purpose?

Because they don't mean the same thing in HTTP.

....Roy

Received on Thursday, 7 May 2009 01:32:34 UTC