Re: Fwd:HTTP server driven content negotiation

Henrik-

There is a client cache.  Managing the cache is exactly what this would be
good for.   So....does this make sense?  Am I using Vary correctly?  Are
there more examples of its use?

	Mike

At 01:00 PM 3/8/99 -0500, Henrik Frystyk Nielsen wrote:
>At 07:57 3/8/99 -0800, Michael A. Dolan wrote:
>
>>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...
>
>Ah - OK, but that would require that the recipient (a cache) knows these
>headers. If there is no cache then vary doesn't make much sense. I was
>under the impression that there were no cache anticipated in your model (or
>at least not a cache that would have to deal with different client profiles
>in which case broadcast doesn't seem to make sense in the first place).
>
>Or am I missing something?
>
>Henrik
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>Henrik Frystyk Nielsen,
>World Wide Web Consortium
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Received on Tuesday, 9 March 1999 10:24:32 UTC