- From: Matthew Cox <macox@microsoft.com>
- Date: Fri, 3 Jun 2011 16:16:22 +0000
- To: "ietf-http-wg@w3.org" <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
- Message-ID: <FFF1050961D037449853E9383C50E957622D40D7@TK5EX14MBXC203.redmond.corp.microsoft.>
Part 5 section 5.3 If-Range has the following text in the case that the response has no etag and only Last-Modified. If a client wishes to perform a sub-range retrieval on a value for which it has only a Last-Modified time and no opaque validator, it MAY do this only if the Last-Modified time is strong in the sense described in Section 2.1.2 of [Part4]. Section 2.1.2 in Part 4 has this text: o The validator is about to be used by a client in an If-Modified- Since or If-Unmodified-Since header field, because the client has a cache entry for the associated representation, and o That cache entry includes a Date value, which gives the time when the origin server sent the original response, and o The presented Last-Modified time is at least 60 seconds before the Date value. This seems to exclude If-Range which is strange since the If-Range text pointed to this section. Is it possible to add If-Range to the text in the first bullet point, or make the text more generic such that it doesn't exclude other methods that use the Last-Modified time? Thanks, Matthew
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