- From: Alex Rousskov <rousskov@measurement-factory.com>
- Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2017 15:15:36 -0700
- To: HTTP Working Group <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
- Cc: Tom Bergan <tombergan@chromium.org>
On 02/17/2017 03:06 PM, Tom Bergan wrote: > On Thu, Feb 16, 2017 at 5:21 PM, Alex Rousskov wrote: > On 02/15/2017 04:43 PM, Tom Bergan wrote: > > if the cache does not have an allowed ETag, then the > > request should be forwarded to the origin. Does that sound right? > It sounds reasonable to me but it would violate the original RFC 2616 > text and go against the letter (but perhaps not the intent) of the new > HTTPbis rules. > I don't think it would violate the original RFC 2616 text? AFAICT, it would violate the following RFC 2616 Section 14.24 MUST: > If none of the entity tags match [...] > the server [...] > MUST return a 412 (Precondition Failed) response. A [caching] proxy is a server. Alex.
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