Re: Does no-store in request imply no-cache?

In a request?

On 18/10/2010, at 11:17 AM, Eric J. Bowman wrote:

> Mark Nottingham wrote:
>> 
>> My inclination is to clarify "any response to it" so that a cache can
>> use the same cached response to serve multiple requests with no-store
>> in them (or not). 
>> 
> 
> That doesn't make sense to me.  My understanding is that no-store has
> the RFC 2068 meaning of no-cache, which allows the RFC 2616 meaning of
> no-cache to be synonymous with must-revalidate while allowing specific
> headers to be excluded.  Your suggestion for no-store would result in
> the RFC 2068 semantics of no-cache being discontinued, as there would
> be no way to prevent the response being written to nonvolatile storage,
> a need which isn't met by the private directive (which allows user-
> agents to store).
> 
> -Eric
> 

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