- From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
- Date: Fri, 08 Apr 2011 10:11:51 +0000
- To: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- cc: Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net>, HTTP Working Group <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
In message <4D9EDB5D.2020805@gmx.de>, Julian Reschke writes: >On 08.04.2011 11:04, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: >> That web-apps expect caches to either use the cookies as part of their >> hash-key or not cache at all when cookies are present, or they break >> seven ways before breakfast. > >Ack. > >This is similar to the special case we have in P1 with respect to >handling multiple Set-Cookie header fields >(<http://greenbytes.de/tech/webdav/draft-ietf-httpbis-p1-messaging-13.html#rfc.section.3.2.p.7>). > >So we probably should mention it, but adding a requirement might break >existing conforming implementations, so I'd prefer not to. Each cookies should have an attribute that tells if they should affect the Vary/hash-key or not. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.
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