- From: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
- Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2011 10:48:30 +0200
- To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
- Cc: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>, Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net>, httpbis Group <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 07:52:38AM +0000, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > In message <4E0C2885.1090702@gmx.de>, Julian Reschke writes: > >On 2011-06-30 09:37, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > >> In message<70295C66-3411-4AF7-83E8-775851DACCFB@mnot.net>, Mark Nottingham wri > >> tes: > >>> <http://trac.tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/ticket/231> > >>> > >>> Proposal: > >> > >>> Authors of new header fields are advised to consider documenting: > >> > >> * How the header field impacts caching. > > > >Can a new header field affect caching? > > If not, we should say so. > > ...not that I think that will have any effect. I agree with PHK here. For instance if some sensitive headers are added that must not be cached, we should probably add provisions for being able to do so (just as we have "Cache-control: no-cache=set-cookie"). Regards, Willy
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