- From: Brian Smith <brian@briansmith.org>
- Date: Tue, 6 Oct 2009 00:26:10 -0500
- To: "'Mark Nottingham'" <mnot@mnot.net>
- Cc: "'HTTP Working Group'" <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
Mark Nottingham wrote:
> On 06/10/2009, at 3:56 PM, Brian Smith wrote:
> > http://trac.tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/changeset/691
>
> The text removed in changeset 691 was very specific to a situation
> where C-L matched the request URI and the ETag and Date said it was
> different; it's a very different thing than the invalidation specified
> for methods with side effects.
No, here is what it said:
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.
In other words:
If a cache receives a successful response whose
Content-Location field matches the Content-Location field
Of an existing stored response for the same request-URI, ...
In particular, note that the cache doesn't compare a Content-Location to a
Request-URI.
Regards,
Brian
Received on Tuesday, 6 October 2009 05:26:40 UTC