Re: Cache control in trailers?

Am 03.02.2021 um 03:57 schrieb Martin Thomson:
> On Wed, Feb 3, 2021, at 12:37, Mark Nottingham wrote:
>> I think the use case is 'I want to convey a well-formed body that
>> reflects the error state as best I can, and have the client show it to
>> the user, but I changed my mind on the caching policy due to the
>> aforementioned error.'
>
> Why then would this be limited to caching policies?  That suggests you might have a different content-type then.  More seriously though, this suggests that you are reneging on the status code.
> ...

Right. While I understand why we might want to avoid touching the status
code, this is really what this is about. In particular, an HTTP client
that doesn't cache at all (and thus is not interested in Cache-Control
in the first place) might want to handle this as well.

Best regards, Julian

Received on Wednesday, 3 February 2021 08:09:34 UTC