Weak validators in conditional requests

• From: Eduard Bagdasaryan <eduard.bagdasaryan@measurement-factory.com>
• Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2018 09:54:46 +0000
• To: ietf-http-wg@w3.org
• Message-Id: <bf5a9b56-c416-d4ab-2fbe-ac9b0482dcaa@measurement-factory.com>

Hello,


Could you please help with the following two questions:

1. The old RFC 2616 has a MUST requirement:

> A cache or origin server receiving a conditional request, other than
> a full-body GET request, MUST use the strong comparison function to
> evaluate the condition.

But I have not found this (or equivalent) in HTTPbis. Is it deprecated?

2. RFC 7233 Appendix B states:

> A weak validator cannot be used in a 206 response. (Section 4.1)

However, I do not see any explicit 'weak validator' restrictions in
4.1 Section. Am I missing something?


Thank you,
Ed

Received on Friday, 31 August 2018 08:57:44 UTC