- From: Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net>
- Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2012 15:16:56 +1000
- To: Zhong Yu <zhong.j.yu@gmail.com>
- Cc: HTTP Working Group <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
Thanks for noticing. This appears to be a leftover from <http://trac.tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/ticket/345>, which I've just reopened. Cheers, On 07/04/2012, at 9:28 AM, Zhong Yu wrote: > 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 > -- Mark Nottingham http://www.mnot.net/
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