What are "appropriate Cache-Control or Expires header fields"

What, precisely, must the Cache-Control or Expires header fields contain in
order to make a response to a POST, a 302 response, a 303 response, or a 307
response cacheable? This seems to not be specified anywhere in the
specification.

The definition of POST says: "Responses to this method are not cacheable,
unless the response includes appropriate Cache-Control or Expires header
fields."

The definitions of 302 Found and 307 Temporary Redirect both say: "This
response is only cacheable if indicated by a Cache-Control or Expires header
field."

The definition of 303 See Other says: "Response SHOULD NOT be cached unless
it is indicated as cacheable by Cache-Control or Expires header fields."

Thanks,
Brian

Received on Tuesday, 13 October 2009 01:23:27 UTC