- From: Amos Jeffries <squid3@treenet.co.nz>
- Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2011 14:56:25 +1200
- To: <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
On Mon, 18 Jul 2011 19:43:46 -0600, Eric J. Bowman wrote: > Adrien de Croy wrote: >> >> We would need some standardised tokens to represent such things, >> otherwise caching intermediaries cannot store and use the correct >> metadata. >> > > Well, that's one approach. Another would be to design the system to > work within the constraints of the protocol -- I'd use Digest auth, > Vary: Authorization and stash the client IP in username. > > -Eric My first response was to think "Cache-Control: private" to prevent storing it for service to multiple clients. With possible proxy-revalidate as a backup if they did cache it. Amos
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