- From: Henrik Frystyk Nielsen <frystyk@w3.org>
- Date: Mon, 08 Mar 1999 09:44:09 -0500
- To: Johan Hjelm <hjelm@w3.org>, Philipp Hoschka <ph@w3.org>, www-tv@w3.org
At 15:11 3/8/99 +0100, Johan Hjelm wrote: >>HTTP 1.1 has the Vary tag and the concept of server driven content >>negotiation. However, I found the use of the Vary tag somewhat vague. >>Anyone have any experience with this tag? Is there more info somewhere at >>W3C on this - from the HTTP 1.1 author perhaps? The vary header field is a mechanism for the origin server to tell a cache what it used in the request to generate that particular response. As this is not the case in a push situation, it really doesn't help that much. Henrik -- Henrik Frystyk Nielsen, World Wide Web Consortium http://www.w3.org/People/Frystyk
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