- From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Date: Sun, 30 Aug 2009 10:52:34 +0200
- To: Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net>
- CC: HTTP Working Group <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
Mark Nottingham wrote: > <http://trac.tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/ticket/167> > > p6 2.4 Validation Model says: >> If a cache receives a successful response whose Content-Location field >> matches that of an existing stored response for the same Request-URI, >> whose entity-tag differs from that of the existing stored response, >> and whose Date is more recent than that of the existing response, the >> existing response SHOULD NOT be returned in response to future >> requests and SHOULD be deleted from the cache. [[anchor6: DISCUSS: Not >> sure if this is necessary.]] > The proposal is to remove this paragraph, because Content-Location-based > selection isn't widely implemented. > > Note that there's also discussion of adding more text to clarify when > cached responses need to be replaced/update. > ... Proposed patch: <http://trac.tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/attachment/ticket/167/167.diff>. Question: does this need to be mentioned as change from RFC2616? BR, Julian
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