Re: requested resource / entity / representation / variant again..

The term was added because it was needed in 2.4;
> When a cache has one or more stored responses for a requested URI,  
> but cannot serve any of them (e.g., because they are not fresh, or  
> one cannot be selected...

> When sending such a conditional request, the cache SHOULD add an If-  
> Modified-Since header whose value is that of the Last-Modified  
> header from the selected (see Section 2.6) stored response, if  
> available.




On 24/07/2009, at 9:24 AM, Henrik Nordstrom wrote:

> fre 2009-07-24 klockan 08:17 +1000 skrev Mark Nottingham:
>
>> * What p6 2.6 currently calls the "selected response", although I
>> suspect that may eventually need to change if we're to properly
>> address the terminology issue.
>
> for now I would probably remove selected response from p6 2.6 as
> follows:
>
> from:
>
>        The stored response with matching selecting request-headers is
>        known as the selected response.
>
>        If no selected response is available, the cache MAY forward the
>        presented request to the origin server in a conditional  
> request;
>        see Section 2.4.
>
> To:
>
>        If no response with matching selecting request-headers is
>        available, the cache MAY forward the presented request to the
>        origin server in a conditional request; see Section 2.4.
>
>
> unless there is plans to actually define "selected response" as a term
> and use it elsewhere as well.
>
>
> Regards
> Henrik
>


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