- From: Zhong Yu <zhong.j.yu@gmail.com>
- Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2012 18:28:15 -0500
- To: HTTP Working Group <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
In RFC2616, Last-Modified header was not allowed in 304 and 206(to an If-Range request) http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2616#section-10.3.5 http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2616#section-10.2.7 In draft 19, Last-Modified is allowed/required in 206/If-Range, but still forbidden in 304 http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-httpbis-p4-conditional-19#section-4.1 http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-httpbis-p5-range-19#section-3.1 Any reason for the asymmetry? Furthermore, why must we exclude other entity headers in 304 and 206/If-Range? There are only 3 of them: Content-Encoding, Content-Language, Content-Type. They can't have any meaningful impact on performance if they are included in the response. Do they really deserve a "SHOULD NOT be included"? Zhong Yu
Received on Friday, 6 April 2012 23:28:44 UTC