- From: Barry Leiba <barryleiba@computer.org>
- Date: Tue, 4 Dec 2012 18:08:51 -0500
- To: Martin Thomson <martin.thomson@gmail.com>
- Cc: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>, HTTP Working Group <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>, James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>, Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net>
>>> Another option available to clients is to utilize Request URI query- >>> string parameters to express preferences. Doing so, however, results >>> in a variety of issues affecting the cacheability of responses. ... > If the intent is to retrieve: > http://example.com/foo > with prefer: wait=5, then asking for > http://example.com/foo?wait=5 > will result in a cache entry against the latter URI, just as > http://example.com/foo?wait=3 > will create another cache entry that are all equally useless to the > requester pulling down the "unmodified" URI. > > Any change needs to be aware of the strict interpretation, but make > this implication obvious. How about this: OLD Doing so, however, results in a variety of issues affecting the cacheability of responses. NEW But any mechanism that alters the URI can have undesirable effects, such as when caches record the altered URI. Barry
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