Re: #227: HEAD and Caches from Henrik Nordström on 2012-02-16 (ietf-http-wg@w3.org from January to March 2012)

From: Henrik Nordström <henrik@henriknordstrom.net>
Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2012 08:25:01 +0100
To: Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net>
Cc: Amos Jeffries <squid3@treenet.co.nz>, ietf-http-wg@w3.org
Message-ID: <1329377101.22776.22.camel@home.hno.se>

mån 2012-02-13 klockan 15:45 +1100 skrev Mark Nottingham:
> New:   
> 
> The response to a HEAD request is cacheable; it MAY be used to satisfy
> subsequent HEAD requests. 

You just lost the property of HEAD updating GET responses. This is a
very intentional property.

HEAD response == GET response minus body. As such it has the same cache
metadata update properties as 304 responses or merge of 204 responses.

Regards
Henrik

Received on Friday, 17 February 2012 01:38:18 UTC