- From: Michael A. Dolan <miked@tbt.com>
- Date: Mon, 08 Mar 1999 07:57:55 -0800
- To: Henrik Frystyk Nielsen <frystyk@w3.org>, Johan Hjelm <hjelm@w3.org>, Philipp Hoschka <ph@w3.org>, www-tv@w3.org
Henry- I understand. My thinking was that one could use/invent Request fields that might be useful. For example: Vary X-profile1 or Vary Accept x-profiles/1 I've probably buggered the syntax up a little, but you get the idea... Mike At 09:44 AM 3/8/99 -0500, Henrik Frystyk Nielsen wrote: >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 > > > ------------------------------------------------------ Michael A. Dolan, Representing DIRECTV, (619)445-9070 PO Box 1673 Alpine, CA 91903 FAX: (619)445-6122
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