Re: Cache control in trailers?

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Mark Nottingham writes:

> In doing so, you necessarily have to handle failure in one or more of 
> those service calls. ESI, for example, allows you to use a backup URL or 
> text (depending on whose extensions you're using) to paper over the 
> problem.[6] That makes the response complete, and it serves that client 
> as best as it can, but you wouldn't want to cache the result for reuse.

Not to mention assembling all the tracking set-cookies from all the
included items.

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Received on Friday, 5 February 2021 07:47:01 UTC