- From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
- Date: Mon, 07 Sep 2020 07:36:58 +0000
- To: "Martin Thomson" <mt@lowentropy.net>
- cc: ietf-http-wg@w3.org
-------- Martin Thomson writes: > On Mon, Sep 7, 2020, at 17:02, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > > 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-* > > Are you talking about using Cache-Control for damage mitigation or a genuine > backstop? It seems like you get to choose between bustage and no caching at > all if you take that path. Where I have seen people have thought about this, it is clearly damage mitigation. -- 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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