Re: intermediaries, implicit gzip, etags, no-transform

"Martin Nilsson" wrote:
> 
> It also depends on what your view is on the authority over data.
> Should the origin server overrule the user agents decision?
>

Yes; with my content-publisher hat on, only I can be authoritative
about my data. If we make user-agents authoritative, why should I
bother to publish if I then have no mechanism to be authoritative about
my own content, when necessary?

Doing what the user-agent wants is a good tiebreaker, so to speak, but
not to the extent that it argues in favor of making anyone but the
publisher authoritative about the data.

-Eric

Received on Saturday, 21 June 2014 23:50:17 UTC