- From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Date: Fri, 08 Apr 2011 12:16:16 +0200
- To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
- CC: Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net>, HTTP Working Group <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
On 08.04.2011 12:11, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > 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. Well, if we were to change cookies-as-used-in-the-wild, then we just should tell producers to send the Vary header if they need to. Best regards, Julian
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