- From: Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net>
- Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2011 14:18:10 +1000
- To: HTTP Working Group <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
Scheduling for -16. On 30/07/2011, at 6:47 AM, Mark Nottingham wrote: > Remove the requirement in p6 3.3 and replace it with: > > """ > Historically, HTTP required the Expires field-value to be no more than a year in the future. While longer freshness lifetimes are no longer prohibited, extremely large values have been demonstrated to cause problems (e.g., clock overflows due to use of 32-bit integers for time values), and most caches will evict a response far sooner than that. Therefore, senders ought not produce them. > """ -- Mark Nottingham http://www.mnot.net/
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