- From: Brian Smith <brian@briansmith.org>
- Date: Fri, 8 May 2009 06:40:58 -0500
- To: "'Adrien de Croy'" <adrien@qbik.com>, "'Brian Smith'" <brian@briansmith.org>
- Cc: "'HTTP Working Group'" <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
Adrien de Croy wrote: > that's not what I meant. I meant maybe the original request had an > Accept-Encoding header, the server sent back a response with Vary > Accept-Encoding, but no Content-Encoding header, since it wasn't > encoded. this was then cached. > > Then another request came in without an Accept-Encoding header. > > What I'm trying to get at is: is there any case to be made for > validation between the Accept-* headers and the matching Content-* > headers of the original request and response, and whether this should > have any bearing on matching for subsequent requests. A transparent cache cannot do that, but a non-transparent proxy can, unless the no-transform attribute is used. My understanding is that whenever the specification refers to a cache, it is referring to a transparent one. Maybe that is something that needs to be more explicit. - Brian
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