On 2015-02-02 07:39, Mark Nottingham wrote: >> Hi there, >> >> the minutes (<http://tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/minutes?item=minutes-90-httpbis.html>) say: >> >>> MarK: Different meaning in the request vs. response, makes him twitchy >> >> Mark, could you elaborate on that a bit? Do you believe that changing something which currently is a request header field only to be used as response header field as well to be a problem in general? Why? > > Experience with Cache-Control -- people get confused over what the pertinent directives are in each direction, and misuse it as a result. > > Cheers, Well, we've got many other header fields where the experience seems to be exactly the opposite, say Content-Type or Content-Encoding. Thus I'm not yet convinced this is an issue... Best regards, JulianReceived on Monday, 2 February 2015 07:58:14 UTC
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