- From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
- Date: Mon, 07 Sep 2020 07:02:21 +0000
- To: "Martin Thomson" <mt@lowentropy.net>
- cc: ietf-http-wg@w3.org
-------- Martin Thomson writes: > Assuming that interpretation is valid, how is this reconciled with existing > uses of validation? If-None-Match and If-Modified-Since specifically, which > never in practice get recorded in Vary (at least not as far as I can tell). > Is it that we effectively bless these fields and require caches to understand > them? I think the answer is yes, but with the footnote that Cache-Control should also be set to mitigate downright disasters, if an intermediary does not grok If-* -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.
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