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

Adrien de Croy wrote:
> 
> surely only server responses can invalidate a cache entry.
>

Actually, unsafe request methods MUST invalidate the cache; since the
response may not follow the same path as the request, there's no way
for a cache to know whether the request was successful or not -- better
safe than sorry.

http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-httpbis-p6-cache-11#section-2.5

-Eric

Received on Monday, 18 October 2010 01:47:06 UTC