Re: Clearing cache digests

• From: Kazuho Oku <kazuhooku@gmail.com>
• Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2016 18:07:25 +0900
• To: Martin Thomson <martin.thomson@gmail.com>
• Cc: Mike Bishop <Michael.Bishop@microsoft.com>, Eric Rescorla <ekr@rtfm.com>, HTTP Working Group <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
• Message-ID: <CANatvzznWtBJ4YsdJVO6-sJHPeUiOz2v5StAC2h5x_zwnkjEjg@mail.gmail.com>

2016-07-18 17:52 GMT+09:00 Martin Thomson <martin.thomson@gmail.com>:
> On 18 July 2016 at 10:51, Mike Bishop <Michael.Bishop@microsoft.com> wrote:
>> Are you proposing that the cache be cleared whenever cookies are cleared?
>
> It probably should be.
>

Should this be limited to cache digests?

Even without cache digests, it is possible to track users by setting
different etags. Considering that, it might be better to recommend
clearing the cache when the user clears the cookie regardless of if
cache-digests is used.

-- 
Kazuho Oku

Received on Monday, 18 July 2016 09:07:54 UTC