Re: WGLC #353: Multiple Values in Cache-Control headers

On 2012-06-08 09:30, Mark Nottingham wrote:
> Revised proposal, based upon discussion:
>
>> Add a note to <https://svn.tools.ietf.org/svn/wg/httpbis/draft-ietf-httpbis/latest/p6-cache.html#calculating.freshness.lifetime>:
>>
>> """
>> When there is more than one value present for a given directive (e.g., two Expires headers, multiple Cache-Control: max-age directives), it is considered invalid. Caches SHOULD consider responses that have invalid freshness information to be stale.
>> """
>
>
> Any further comments? Otherwise we'll close and incorporate.
> ...

Would it make sense to have generic text in the definition of 
Cache-Control about this?

Does the "must have a single value" rule apply to all directives? Can 
the definition of error recovery diverge per directive?

Best regards, Julian

Received on Friday, 8 June 2012 09:58:00 UTC