Re: Suggestion for new link pseudo-class :current (or similar

Grey Hodge wrote:
> 
> How would anything people do regarding their site's organizational structure
> affect cacheability in any way? I can't see any manner in which this would be
> an issue. Yes it would break existing cached copies, but so does any update of
> a page currently.
> 

Given that HTTP 1.1 Vary: header support is patchy, at best, if one 
wants a content negotiated page to be cached, and in particularly to be 
cached in shared caches, you must give it a unique name, based just on 
the URL, and you must respond to the negotiated URL with an end to end 
redirect to the negotiated version.

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David Woolley
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Received on Wednesday, 1 August 2007 20:37:44 UTC