- 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
Received on Friday, 3 June 2011 16:16:52 UTC