Re: BNF for Cache-Control

Adrien de Croy wrote:
> 
> the production for Cache-control seems to imply that any cache control 
> header can contain any number of cache-request-directive or 
> cache-response-directive.  This means a mixture of both is permissible.
> 
>    Cache-Control = "Cache-Control" ":" 1#cache-directive
>    cache-directive = cache-request-directive | cache-response-directive
> 
> Is this intended?  Surely cache-response-directive are only valid for 
> responses, and cache-request-directive for requests?
> 
> I would have expected something more like:
> 
>    Cache-Control = "Cache-Control" ":" cache-control-request | 
> cache-control-response
>    cache-control-request = 1#cache-request-directive
>    cache-control-response = 1#cache-response-directive
> 
> to enforce separation.
> 
> Apologies if this is already covered in HTTPbis
> ...

There's a limit to what we can (or *want*) express in the ABNF.

If we made that change, a header instance that combined both request and 
response directives would by syntactically invalid. Would that reflect 
what's really desired and implemented? Shouldn't recipients just ignore 
those directives they don't understand?

BR, Julian