- From: Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net>
- Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2013 10:59:53 +1000
- To: Roy T. Fielding <fielding@gbiv.com>
- Cc: IETF HTTP WG <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
On 14/09/2013, at 7:30 AM, Roy T. Fielding <fielding@gbiv.com> wrote: > When editing the definition of Warning last night, I noticed > that it claims to be applicable to both request and response > messages. That is surprising (and not in a good way). > > I don't see how sending Warning in a request would ever be useful. > At best, it might mistakenly be stored in a PUT. > > Does anyone know? Can I make Warning specific to responses? 2616 said: > Warning headers can in general be applied to any message, however some specific warn-codes are specific to caches and can only be applied to response messages. The case that I can think of is a non-transparent intermediary changing a request payload. *shrug* Cheers, -- Mark Nottingham http://www.mnot.net/
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